Image locate - Google Image Search

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I know you can use "image locate" to display an images (metadata) GPS location on Google Maps but I was hoping someone would have some insight into the Google Image Search function.

I'm sure you all know that you can take an image that is on your local hard drive and either use Google Image Search (in your browser) to browse to it (on your hard drive) or you can drag an image (from DOpus) and drop it on the Google Image search box - either way the image is uploaded to Google for the purpose of doing a Google Image search for similar images online. This is nothing new.

However, has anyone had any experience with being able to do this process by just using a right-click context menu command in DOpus? I'm imagining that it could be as simple as building a URL and submitting it to your browser. Something like:
google.com/search?\Users\Steve\Pictures\Landscapes\meadow1.jpg" inside of a DOpus command and assigning it to right-click context menu choice. But I'm sure it's not that easy. I can't find any clue by looking at URLs that result from the manual operations as they result is several lines of what looks like random text.

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No unfortunately it's not that easy. Something has to actually cause the browser to upload the file; simply putting the path on the URL isn't enough. It would require whichever browser you use to support it as a command line argument which I doubt any of them would.

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Thanks for the reply!
I suppose if it was that easy someone would have figured it out lomg before me asking. Just hoping.

BUT... The Google image search does open up a Windows (Firefox?) dialog that allows you to browse for a file. Do you think there would be any way to hijack or imitate that dialog? I have no idea myself... just fishing for ideas...

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Maybe something like AutoHotkey could do it, but I'm not familiar enough with that tool to know.

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Someone wrote a shell extension for the similar TinEye service:

addictivetips.com/windows-ti ... text-menu/