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.