diff --git a/searx/engines/google_images.py b/searx/engines/google_images.py
index d9ff3f82122d618e2c04425f6ea0ec84792b881c..3f60475dd122b0e286c1b3ef779df966366dbf60 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google_images.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google_images.py
@@ -1,32 +1,20 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-"""Google (Images)
+# lint: pylint
+"""This is the implementation of the google images engine using the google
+internal API used the Google Go Android app.
 
-For detailed description of the *REST-full* API see: `Query Parameter
-Definitions`_.
+This internal API offer results in
 
-.. _admonition:: Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
+- JSON (_fmt:json)
+- Protobuf (_fmt:pb)
+- Protobuf compressed? (_fmt:pc)
+- HTML (_fmt:html)
+- Protobuf encoded in JSON (_fmt:jspb).
 
-   This engine needs to allow images from the `data URLs`_ (prefixed with the
-   ``data:` scheme).::
-
-     Header set Content-Security-Policy "img-src 'self' data: ;"
-
-.. _Query Parameter Definitions:
-   https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#WebSearch_Query_Parameter_Definitions
-.. _data URLs:
-   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URIs
 """
 
-from urllib.parse import urlencode, unquote
-from lxml import html
-
-from searx import logger
-from searx.utils import (
-    eval_xpath,
-    eval_xpath_list,
-    eval_xpath_getindex,
-    extract_text,
-)
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+from json import loads
 
 from searx.engines.google import (
     get_lang_info,
@@ -35,13 +23,9 @@ from searx.engines.google import (
 )
 
 # pylint: disable=unused-import
-from searx.engines.google import (
-    supported_languages_url
-    ,  _fetch_supported_languages
-)
-# pylint: enable=unused-import
+from searx.engines.google import supported_languages_url, _fetch_supported_languages
 
-logger = logger.getChild('google images')
+# pylint: enable=unused-import
 
 # about
 about = {
@@ -50,83 +34,53 @@ about = {
     "official_api_documentation": 'https://developers.google.com/custom-search',
     "use_official_api": False,
     "require_api_key": False,
-    "results": 'HTML',
+    "results": 'JSON',
 }
 
 # engine dependent config
-categories = ['images']
-paging = False
+categories = ['images', 'web']
+paging = True
 use_locale_domain = True
 time_range_support = True
 safesearch = True
+send_accept_language_header = True
 
-filter_mapping = {
-    0: 'images',
-    1: 'active',
-    2: 'active'
-}
-
-
-def scrap_out_thumbs(dom):
-    """Scrap out thumbnail data from <script> tags.
-    """
-    ret_val = {}
-    for script in eval_xpath(dom, '//script[contains(., "_setImgSrc(")]'):
-        _script = script.text
-        # _setImgSrc('0','data:image\/jpeg;base64,\/9j\/4AAQSkZJR ....');
-        _thumb_no, _img_data = _script[len("_setImgSrc("):-2].split(",", 1)
-        _thumb_no = _thumb_no.replace("'", "")
-        _img_data = _img_data.replace("'", "")
-        _img_data = _img_data.replace(r"\/", r"/")
-        ret_val[_thumb_no] = _img_data.replace(r"\x3d", "=")
-    return ret_val
-
-
-def scrap_img_by_id(script, data_id):
-    """Get full image URL by data-id in parent element
-    """
-    img_url = ''
-    _script = script.split('\n')
-    for i, line in enumerate(_script):
-        if 'gstatic.com/images' in line and data_id in line and i + 1 < len(_script):
-            url_line = _script[i + 1]
-            img_url = url_line.split('"')[1]
-            img_url = unquote(img_url.replace(r'\u00', r'%'))
-    return img_url
+filter_mapping = {0: 'images', 1: 'active', 2: 'active'}
 
 
 def request(query, params):
-    """Google-Video search request"""
-
-    lang_info = get_lang_info(
-        # pylint: disable=undefined-variable
-        params, supported_languages, language_aliases, False
+    """Google-Image search request"""
+
+    # pylint: disable=undefined-variable
+    lang_info = get_lang_info(params, supported_languages, language_aliases, False)
+
+    query_url = (
+        'https://'
+        + lang_info['subdomain']
+        + '/search'
+        + "?"
+        + urlencode(
+            {
+                'q': query,
+                'tbm': "isch",
+                **lang_info['params'],
+                'ie': "utf8",
+                'oe': "utf8",
+                'asearch': 'isch',
+                'async': '_fmt:json,p:1,ijn:' + str(params['pageno']),
+            }
+        )
     )
 
-    query_url = 'https://' + lang_info['subdomain'] + '/search' + "?" + urlencode({
-        'q': query,
-        'tbm': "isch",
-        **lang_info['params'],
-        'ie': "utf8",
-        'oe': "utf8",
-        'ucbcd': 1,
-        'num': 30,
-    })
-
     if params['time_range'] in time_range_dict:
         query_url += '&' + urlencode({'tbs': 'qdr:' + time_range_dict[params['time_range']]})
     if params['safesearch']:
         query_url += '&' + urlencode({'safe': filter_mapping[params['safesearch']]})
-
-    logger.debug("query_url --> %s", query_url)
     params['url'] = query_url
 
-    logger.debug("HTTP header Accept-Language --> %s", lang_info.get('Accept-Language'))
-    params['cookies']['CONSENT'] = "YES+"
     params['headers'].update(lang_info['headers'])
-    params['headers']['Accept'] = (
-        'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'
-    )
+    params['headers']['User-Agent'] = 'NSTN/3.60.474802233.release Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 12; US) gzip'
+    params['headers']['Accept'] = '*/*'
     return params
 
 
@@ -136,76 +90,34 @@ def response(resp):
 
     detect_google_sorry(resp)
 
-    # convert the text to dom
-    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
-    img_bas64_map = scrap_out_thumbs(dom)
-    img_src_script = eval_xpath_getindex(
-        dom, '//script[contains(., "AF_initDataCallback({key: ")]', 1).text
-
-    # parse results
-    #
-    # root element::
-    #     <div id="islmp" ..>
-    # result div per image::
-    #     <div jsmodel="tTXmib"> / <div jsaction="..." data-id="..."
-    #     The data-id matches to a item in a json-data structure in::
-    #         <script nonce="I+vqelcy/01CKiBJi5Z1Ow">AF_initDataCallback({key: 'ds:1', ... data:function(){return [ ...
-    #     In this structure the link to the origin PNG, JPG or whatever is given
-    # first link per image-div contains a <img> with the data-iid for bas64 encoded image data::
-    #      <img class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-iid="0"
-    # second link per image-div is the target link::
-    #      <a class="VFACy kGQAp" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacrament_of_the_Last_Supper">
-    # the second link also contains two div tags with the *description* and *publisher*::
-    #      <div class="WGvvNb">The Sacrament of the Last Supper ...</div>
-    #      <div class="fxgdke">en.wikipedia.org</div>
-
-    root = eval_xpath(dom, '//div[@id="islmp"]')
-    if not root:
-        logger.error("did not find root element id='islmp'")
-        return results
-
-    root = root[0]
-    for img_node in eval_xpath_list(root, './/img[contains(@class, "rg_i")]'):
-
-        img_alt = eval_xpath_getindex(img_node, '@alt', 0)
-
-        img_base64_id = eval_xpath(img_node, '@data-iid')
-        if img_base64_id:
-            img_base64_id = img_base64_id[0]
-            thumbnail_src = img_bas64_map[img_base64_id]
-        else:
-            thumbnail_src = eval_xpath(img_node, '@src')
-            if not thumbnail_src:
-                thumbnail_src = eval_xpath(img_node, '@data-src')
-            if thumbnail_src:
-                thumbnail_src = thumbnail_src[0]
-            else:
-                thumbnail_src = ''
-
-        link_node = eval_xpath_getindex(img_node, '../../../a[2]', 0)
-        url = eval_xpath_getindex(link_node, '@href', 0)
-
-        pub_nodes = eval_xpath(link_node, './div/div')
-        pub_descr = img_alt
-        pub_source = ''
-        if pub_nodes:
-            pub_descr = extract_text(pub_nodes[0])
-            pub_source = extract_text(pub_nodes[1])
-
-        img_src_id = eval_xpath_getindex(img_node, '../../../@data-id', 0)
-        src_url = scrap_img_by_id(img_src_script, img_src_id)
-        if not src_url:
-            src_url = thumbnail_src
-
-        results.append({
-            'url': url,
-            'title': img_alt,
-            'content': pub_descr,
-            'source': pub_source,
-            'img_src': src_url,
-            # 'img_format': img_format,
-            'thumbnail_src': thumbnail_src,
-            'template': 'images.html'
-        })
+    json_start = resp.text.find('{"ischj":')
+    json_data = loads(resp.text[json_start:])
+
+    for item in json_data["ischj"]["metadata"]:
+
+        result_item = {
+            'url': item["result"]["referrer_url"],
+            'title': item["result"]["page_title"],
+            'content': item["text_in_grid"]["snippet"],
+            'source': item["result"]["site_title"],
+            'img_format': f'{item["original_image"]["width"]} x {item["original_image"]["height"]}',
+            'img_src': item["original_image"]["url"],
+            'thumbnail_src': item["thumbnail"]["url"],
+            'template': 'images.html',
+        }
+
+        author = item["result"].get('iptc', {}).get('creator')
+        if author:
+            result_item['author'] = ', '.join(author)
+
+        copyright_notice = item["result"].get('iptc', {}).get('copyright_notice')
+        if copyright_notice:
+            result_item['source'] += ' / ' + copyright_notice
+
+        file_size = item.get('gsa', {}).get('file_size')
+        if file_size:
+            result_item['source'] += ' (%s)' % file_size
+
+        results.append(result_item)
 
     return results