The bottom line is driven by customers such as Pinterest who pay Google to assist them with online advertising. The bottom line at Google is not driven by showing users the 'best' results for users. Pinterest pays Google for online ad aservices. 'There's no intentional or manual effort at Google to promote pinterest.'īut there is an effort at Pinterest to promote itself via Google. The problem is that there is no real competitor. What can be said about it is that the algorithm for finding related things is generally quite good - the interesting thing is that it's actually better at finding the aforementioned boy's love fiction than most of the websites that actually host it. They only recently added a way to search one's own's pins, and it's very lacking and doesn't reliably even catch words in the descriptions thereof.

It's really quite a big genre and has nothing to do with pædophilia. address was probably passed on to some U.S.A. The most annoying moral preaching I encountered was that I searched for “boy's love” once - the genre of male–male tragic romantic fiction, that got me a preachy message about pædophilia that made me suspect my i.p. Of course, it comes with the tried and tested “corporate morality” where there are rules against various things that are phrased in terms of moral concerns that are really about keeping their app on the Apple store - this naturally includes vague standards on “nudity” that are not worded in a gendered way, but there is an unofficial code that everyone knows that it very much is. Recently they removed the facility to, when saving a pin, to type the name of the board to find it, now having to scroll through an alphabetical listing.īefore that, they also redesigned the website such that a refresh of the page was required in order to save a pin to two different boards, an action they explicitly support. I have an account there and I use it but the interface is atrocious and they seem to actively be making it worse.

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