If I search Google Images for mountains of madness lovecraft, I get something like this URL:
Is there a very easy way to get a short URL suitable for sharing?
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You can either use the URL https://www.google.com/search?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&tbm=isch or you could just use a URL shortener, like bit.ly.
Note: tbm=isch means the search will be done in images.
The URL in the form https://images.google.com/images?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft works too.
Test: https://images.google.com/images?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft
Search tools in Google Images correspond to various modifiers, as you can find out by trying them and checking how the link was changed, for example (below each link, it's showed the modified parameter):
- Color: https://images.google.com/images?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&tbs=ic:specific,isc:red
&tbs=ic:specific,isc:red
Date Range https://images.google.com/images?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:4/1/2013,cd_max:5/1/2013- custom range is still supported for regular searches; not but no longer for images- Past year (past month, past week, today): https://images.google.com/images?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&tbs=qdr:y
&tbs=qdr:y
- Size https://images.google.com/images?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&tbs=isz:l
&tbs=isz:l
The basic idea is experimenting with the URL - you can always try which parts you can omit.
- The first link is redirected to
https://www.google.com/search?q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&tbm=isch, the same as the accepted answer.2023-10-14 03:53:55 +00:00Commented Oct 14, 2023 at 3:53 - @Rubén Yes - the answer was posted a few years ago, Google clearly changed some things since then.Martin– Martin2023-10-15 06:21:47 +00:00Commented Oct 15, 2023 at 6:21
To anomonise the url, remove all unnecessary parameters from the url. Looks like the default url parameters changed some time recently (from tbm=isch to udm=2).
The only two bits of the URL that need to remain are the search term (q) and the type of search (udm =2 for an image search).
Example
Original url:
Exact same URL with all the junk removed:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cellular+automata+rule+30&udm=2
Both of the above urls link to an image search for the same term, except the second one has all the unnecessary parameters removed and keeps only the q and udm paramters).
I created a very simple web app that cleans Google search result page URLs, links copied from those pages, etc.: URL Clean.
