Getting Pinterest out of Google Results by default

Too often my search results have been cluttered with useless results from Pinterest. Generally when I search I want informative results and unfortunately when Pinterest pops up if there is any useful information behind a Pinterest result it will take a long click journey to find it.

So today I went looking for a way to exclude pinterest by default.

The solution for me (Thanks Benjamen Lim) is browser based: a Chrome setting.

For my own future reference I’ve detailed things Benjamen didn’t, but left out some explanations he gave that you might like to read.

1. In Chrome, go to Settings>Manage Search Engines.
   
   
2. Find Google, click the stacked dots at right.
   
   
   
3. Click Edit (if Google is your default search engine, Edit is the only option available under the dots)
   
   
   
4. Although the URL is greyed out, we can double click and Ctrl-A to select and Ctrl-C copy.
   
   
   
5. Now where Benjamen Lim moved straight to Adding a new engine, I figured:
   “the URL is long but the box containing it small”
   so I opted to open Notepad to paste & edit the URL there before copying the new version and taking it back to add the new engine.
   
   However, the spot to edit in the URL (after ?q=) is only 20 characters from the start of URL
   
   
6. Whether in Notepad or the Adding engine box, after pasting the copied URL find the spot between ?q= and %s& and add in
   +-site:pinterest.*+ after ?q=.
   and Save.
   
   
7. Find the saved engine in the non-default list and make it default (through the stacked dots)

PS

If you’re wondering how I captured the cursor and pointer in my screenshots, the answer is IrfanView, recalled by revisiting my post [in other blog].

PPS

My republish-worthiness meter will be refined because republishing that post about IrfanView took a very long time.

Testing OpenLiveWriter’s connection

So, last time I tried to post here from Open Live Writer (I am vaguely recalling) it failed with an intensely frustrating lack of explanation.

The recollection is vague because it was so long ago, resurfacing patchily now that the same thing is happening again.

Today I stumbled upon a possible explanation and maybe a fix by Dave Burdick . {Crossing my fingers}

Now when I’ve hit publish (several times today)
If the pop-its_gone (is there a better word for a message box that doesn’t hang around long enough to be read?)
___ might have been the error message Dave refers to
&&& for which the solution appears to be loading images to a Google Pictures file before copying into the post
=== then will I finally throw in the towel on blogging ?

Before I go messing about with Dave’s suggestion, I’ll see whether I can at least post without pictures.