> Add: '-site:pinterest.com' to your Google image search to avoid pinterest results.

Even though I usually remember to include this manual filtering for images in my searches, it's cumbersome and inconvenient to need to type it, and I definitely don't want to have an extension that handles it for me. And even worse, is the enormous and growing proliferation of sites that just scrape StackOverflow and spam the top 10 places of code-queries with their robot-written word-salad of stolen results.

I've even thought about writing a terminal script that includes all of these sites, and which I could use as an intermediary step for opening searches in my browser. But honestly - a simple exclusion list should be a part of the built-in search.

edit: btw the exclusion needs to be '-site:pinterest.*' to totally exclude this pestilential image-stealing 'service' from results

Good point. I do indeed do this in my personal searches. But much of my searching is in front of students. As an art/design teacher, image search has become an invaluable part of my teaching. Much of this is ‘performative’… searching whilst teaching. Having to include Booleans adds an extra layer of complexity to what should be a simple operation. I don’t want to lecture on Google-foo when I had planned on lecturing on Post-Impressionism.

Would super-love the ability to ‘own’ my search criteria. Ideally, via defined profiles.

Due to ideas like this, I learned that Google limits you to "32 terms" in your query. Bing is a little more generous, but also breaks horribly with queries that are long for various reasons (like site restrictions or exclusions).