Short url for Google News and Google Videos

Question

On some occasions you want to provide some particular Google Search. You could simply copy the link from your browser's address bar, which often gives a very long link containing a lot of redundant stuff, see, for example, this question (and also here and here).

But you can also create a shorter link, if you remove from the url the things, which are not needed. For example http://www.google.com/search?q=test&tbm=isch is a link to Google Images search, the part tbm=isch means that it is search in images.

For many of services, you can get a nicer and shorter url:

• Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=test http://www.google.com/search?q=test
• Google Images: http://images.google.com/images?q=test http://images.google.com/images?q=test
• Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?q=test http://books.google.com/books?q=test
• Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=test http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=test

But I did not find similar type of link for Google Videos. The link http://video.google.com/video?q=test http://video.google.com/video?q=test does not work (although http://video.google.com is a valid link).

I did not find this for Google News, either. The link http://news.google.com/news?q=test returns different results than http://www.google.com/search?q=test&tbm=nws.

Are there such "short" URLs for Google Videos and Google News searches?

Answer 1

As of October 2023,

1. http://news.google.com/news?q=test redirects to https://news.google.com/search?q=test (search instead of news)
2. Google Video, https://video.google.com/, was retired. For details, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video.

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As far as I knew, back in 2015, there wasn't a shorter URL for searching Videos and News. Instead, use the tbm parameter and the corresponding keyword:

• vid for videos -> https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&q=test
• nws for news -> https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=test

Bonus:

• bks for books -> https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=test
• app for apps -> https://www.google.com/search?tbm=app&q=test

For Maps, there is a "short" search URL -> https://www.google.com/maps?q=test

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