You seem to be the wizard of unwrapping searches on sites and showing how to add them on our own Web sites, which is awesome. I saw – and really liked – your article on how to add a Google search box to my site but instead of searching Google, I want to search Google Images. Doable?
Sheesh, I feel typecast, like some Hollywood character actor who invariably plays the heavy in the mob crime films or the dorky computer guy or something. 🙂
The problem must be that I actually like to unwrap HTML code and figure out how to add neat search boxes to Web sites. I’m sure there’s an entry in the DSM IV on the strange, pathological enjoyment of reverse engineering popular Web sites!
Anyway, okay. So. Google Images.
Let’s start by cracking the page and seeing what’s inside…
No. Let’s not. Let’s do this differently. This time, let’s just look at the URL generated by a search and unwrap that directly. if I search for “banana”, here’s the URL generated:
Most of that can be axed, as Google includes information on the browser you’re running, language you’re using, etc., but they aren’t critical for the search to succeed.
Trim it down to the bare essentials and it looks like this:
Actually, a wee bit of testing reveals that the button value (btnG) can be omitted too, which means that in fact the URL is simply:
That’s sure nice and simple!
Now, to generate that URL, you need to use a GET form and the input field needs to be named “q” to match the Google specs. This can be easily done thusly:
<input type=”text” name=”q” />
<input type=”submit” value=”Search Google Images” />
</form>
That’s all you need for a basic Google Images search. Here, try it:
Simple enough! Now, I slipped one more thing in, adding target=”_blank” as an additional attribute to the “form” tag so that the results would open in a different window. If you don’t want that behavior, simply use the code as shown above.
Hope that gets you going with your own personal Google Images search feature.
that’s really helpful ,, thanks a lot
can i do it with Google videos too
may u help please
Hi Dave – This information was awesome! Thank you. Can you tell me how to ensure the Camera icon is visible to allow for the Google Reverse Image look up feature in the code you did above?
That is simply cool. It would be an excellent feature if we could display the results in the same page like in a frame.
how can i add a logo on google search
your code for adding google image search works fine in “Mozilla Fire fox” , but not in “GOOGLE CHROME”.
Can u post the code which works for google chrome browser too.
want konw that how we can add our personal image in to google image…plz help me
Thank you for the detailed article on embedding Google Image search form.
i want to know how to add our picture in google image list
i want to use it for my site photo search, how to use this form as a insite search for photoes supported by google? is there any ways of the code details?thanks a lot!@!@@
HoW Put my pic. in goggle images
i want to add google search box in my webnode website. how to add???
i want to insert images in google image
i like a google site…..
i want to know how to add our picture in google image list
Cyberspy, I’ll try to create one of those but it’s a bit tricky because the image search goes to a different URL than the regular Google search. Do a site search for “google image” to see if I’ve published the new code.
Sonny, the real key to gaining good visibility in Google – or any search engine (I’m thinking “bing” here) – is to have inbound links from external, high quality sites. Instead of worrying about your keyword density, think instead about the existing sites in your market segment and how you can contribute to those sites and thereby gain a few links.
Hi – I have read some of your technical responses here and I am interested in you taking a peek at my site. I intentionally designed the site to be high in key words and images that are all highly related to vintage collectable art deco figural lamps. I am frustrated because my site is barely showing up on Google and my images are hardly showing up at all on google image searches……..? Any suggestions on how I can increase my website rankings and how I can get my images to show up on google image search…..? Any feedback appreciated.
Could you show how to create a search box that gives radio buttons to choose between a Google web search or image search?
Hello,
I have my own site indexed about six months but any photo is not in google images… Why? My pics are descripted by alt tags…. etc. What I should to do please help me…
Shiju and Morganbellas, you can’t explicitly add your site to Google Images, Google just needs to index your pages, find images that are keyword named, and then adds them to the index itself. What I mean by keyword named is that an image called DSC_3737.JPG is going to be far harder to find via Google Image search than if it were named lion-attacking-zebra-african-veldt.jpg would be.
how do i add my website to google images please
i want konw that how we can add our personal image in to google image
i want to add my image in google how can i do this
Thanks for the info. I was looking for a way to put the images I have on site to google images search.
Thanks once again
this is really a great sit, it helped me a lot.
But i have a question how to add our images to google images?
Do you know if I can embed the results of a google image search on my site kind of like how I can embed Flickr image search results on my site?
this site was really useful for me .. thanks a lot..
Thanks for the information, really helps alot, but I have a question, is it possible to include a radio button or something so you have the one text box, the one button, and then two radio buttons to select if you want to search images or just the web?
Thanks
Troz
Thanks for this insight information!
Dave, you’re awesome! How could I encrypt the Google Image search so that the results would across even behind a firewall or content filtering tool?
With appreciation,
Miguel Guhlin