diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google_images.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google_images.py
index e7980c6a44..08e17546fa 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google_images.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/google_images.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def imgurl_from_id(raw, tbnid):
 class GoogleImages(Source):
 
     name = 'Google Images'
-    version = (1, 0, 3)
+    version = (1, 0, 4)
     minimum_calibre_version = (2, 80, 0)
     description = _('Downloads covers from a Google Image search. Useful to find larger/alternate covers.')
     capabilities = frozenset(['cover'])
@@ -105,8 +105,13 @@ class GoogleImages(Source):
         # URL scheme
         url = 'https://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&tbm=isch&{}&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&cr=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&tbs={}iar:t,ift:jpg'.format(q, sz)
         log('Search URL: ' + url)
-        br.set_simple_cookie('CONSENT', 'YES+', '.google.com', path='/')
+        # See https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/1054 for cookies
+        br.set_simple_cookie('CONSENT', 'PENDING+987', '.google.com', path='/')
+        br.set_simple_cookie('SOCS','CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg', '.google.com', path='/')
+        # br.set_debug_http(True)
         raw = clean_ascii_chars(br.open(url).read().decode('utf-8'))
+        # with open('/t/raw.html', 'w') as f:
+        #     f.write(raw)
         root = parse_html(raw)
         results = root.xpath('//div/@data-tbnid')  # could also use data-id
         # from calibre.utils.ipython import ipython
@@ -135,6 +140,5 @@ def test():
                      authors=('Joe Abercrombie',))
     print('Downloaded', rq.qsize(), 'covers')
 
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     test()
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py
index f1567d4b15..856be16f74 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from calibre.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
 from calibre.utils.lock import ExclusiveFile
 from calibre.utils.random_ua import accept_header_for_ua
 
-current_version = (1, 2, 2)
+current_version = (1, 2, 3)
 minimum_calibre_version = (2, 80, 0)
 webcache = {}
 webcache_lock = Lock()
@@ -368,7 +368,9 @@ def google_parse_results(root, raw, log=prints, ignore_uncached=True):
 def google_specialize_browser(br):
     with webcache_lock:
         if not hasattr(br, 'google_consent_cookie_added'):
-            br.set_simple_cookie('CONSENT', 'YES+', '.google.com', path='/')
+            # See https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/1054 for cookies
+            br.set_simple_cookie('CONSENT', 'PENDING+987', '.google.com', path='/')
+            br.set_simple_cookie('SOCS','CAESHAgBEhJnd3NfMjAyMzA4MTAtMF9SQzIaAmRlIAEaBgiAo_CmBg', '.google.com', path='/')
             br.google_consent_cookie_added = True
     return br