How To Remove Pinterest From Google Search Results
Pinterest is a popular website for crafts, food, and romantic vampire related stuff. When the website first launched, it had one of the most unique web designs of any website. It still has a steady user base but Pinterest is one of the worst spammers of Google search results, particularly Google Image Search. You get an image that, when clicked, basically sends you down a rabbit hole trying to find the source. Here’s how you can remove Pinterest from Google Search Results.
If you’re a Firefox user, it’s going to be easier to remove Pinterest from Google Search Results because you can just install an add-on called Unpinterested. For Chrome users, or for mobile users, there’s still an option to remove Pinterest from Google Search Results but it’s a manual fix that you will need to apply each time you Google something.
Firefox Users
Install Unpinterested and search for anything. Go to Google Image search and look for knitting patterns. Without the add-on, there are probably a few Pinterest results in there. With it, there are none.
Other Browsers
For all other browsers, both desktop and mobile, you’re going to have to use a search modifier to remove Pinterest from Google search results. A search modifier lets you include specific domains, exact keyword matches, and file types when you search for something. There is one operator that lets you exclude all results from a particular website. In this case, that website it Pinterest.
All you need to do is append the following at the end of your search term.
-www.pinterest.com
Make sure you include the ‘www’ bit. You don’t need to add https:// to the start of the address. This will purge your search results of all Pinterest images, pages, boards etc.
This operator works on all Google search tools i.e. you can use it in Google web search, and on Google Image Search. If you have other websites that spam your search results, i.e., ones you don’t care to include in search, you can use this exact same trick to exclude them. The process is the same; add a minus symbol and enter the domain name.
Pinterest may be a good website. It certainly has its user base but nothing spams image search like this website. It seems everything in the search results was added by a user for the sake of spamming whoever finds it. With so much emphasis on the image itself, Pinterest makes it almost impossible to find the source of the actual image, or anything that’s remotely related to it.
Remember to exclude all subdomains with -pinterest.*
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Not as many results, but still getting the pin…but it’s working thanks
The -www.pinterest.com worked for both my image search and “all” search! Thank you for the tip! I ABSOLUTELY HATE PINTEREST! The platform is super confusing to navigate bc the functionality is messy and disorganized. Also, 99% of the material seems to be complete junk links. But I can avoid all of that by not using it. I draw the line when pinterest dominates my search results.
I did get one br.pinterest image but that’s it! Everything else was NONE PINTEREST
Funny it almost seems like google doesn’t know what to come up with when pinterest is excluded!
If you’re going to write a verbose article that simply boils down to “use ‘-‘ in front of terms to remove them from search”, at least make sure that still works. It doesn’t. “-www.pinterest.com” does nothing to filter out pinterest results from image searches.
I use duck duck go to search so the extension doesn’t work for me. I saved a bookmark with the specific search criteria described above. Unfortunately, now my searches are populated with pinterest.au, fr, ca, nz, de, .com.au, etc… Nearly impossible to exclude them all-UGH!
used -www.pinterest.com in google search but it does not work, 1st result was pinterest
On the Firefox addon page
“This add-on has been removed by its author.”
Unpininterested is not in the addon repository for Firefox