Anonymize a Google Images URL

Question

If I search Google Images for mountains of madness lovecraft, I get something like this URL:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1019&bih=805&q=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&gbv=2&oq=mountains+of+madness+lovecraft&aq=f&aqi=g-S1&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0i24.4470.1890.0.2347.8.1.7.0.0.0.285.245.2-1.1.0...0.0.W_C1z_rfY-k

Is there a very easy way to get a short URL suitable for sharing?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I created a very simple web app that cleans Google search result page URLs, links copied from those pages, etc.: URL Clean.