Two thumbs up I extend my sincerest gratitude for your assistance. This is exactly what I was hoping for. Many thanks and may the favour be returned to you.

I wasn't aware that google only cached the first thousand or so results. Thanks for the info.
I am, however, still at a loss. Your instruction on this one would be greatly appreciated. I only need the first 20 odd results for my searches.
Regards

Yay, it works! 

I'm watching the images coming down this very moment. So very excited about this script! I utilised the first method mentioned of entering the array at the command prompt then calling downloadimagesgoogle(Names,1,n). Absolutely brilliant!

However, I am now posed with the question of passing an argument to cease downloading after x amount of results. I fear that some of my search criteria may attempt to download the entire web. For example 'Jimi Hendrix' returns in excess of 600K results. Where do I start and what do I need to understand?

Kind regards and my sincere appreciation for the response.

Hi,

I'm a total newbie to this but am extremely enthused to see this script running.

I've tried to follow the instructions to the letter, I created the desired cell array of names but  when I try to run this script in Matlab 7 I recieve:

>> downloadimagesfromgoogle(Names,1,1);
Error: File: downloadimagesfromgoogle.m Line: 25 Column: 1
Function definitions are not permitted at the prompt or in scripts.

the line being referenced by the error is;

function downloadimagesfromgoogle(Names,start,finish)

In the event that I misunderstood the instructions, I've attached the modified script in the hope this would shed further light on the situation.

Your help would be greatly appreciated

Kind Regards