google-image-search
I often Google Image Search for simple images to add to my blog. For example I just searched 'lots of coffee'.
However, for certain terms (like the aforementioned one) it produces a lot of results from stock image companies, that are all obnoxiously watermarked.
I'm not interested in paying for the stock images so I'd rather just not have those results show up.
Is there a google-hack I can do avoid these images?
Google recently started indexing SVG files;
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-image-search-indexes-svg-files.html
It should be there as a 'filetype' option in the advanced images search;
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
This might also be useful;
Find SVG vector images with Google Search
Hope this helps.
There doesn't seem to be any way to save Google Image search preferences, even when logged in to Google, which is a bit strange. I would have thought this would be something that a lot of people would use.
Anyway, you could probably create a little piece of JavaScript and add to your toolbar as a bookmarklet to do this.
Something like this would work:
javascript:(function() {
var searchTerm = prompt("Enter search term:","");
searchTerm = escape(searchTerm);
var url = "http://www.google.com/search?q=" + searchTerm + "&tbm=isch&hl=en&cr=&safe=images&orq=dog&tbs=isz:lt,islt:vga&biw=1280&bih=";
window.location.href = url;
})();
Best Answer
While I cannot think of a "Google Hack" to do this I can think of two options.