Google Discover Cropping Publisher Images In New Full Width Redesign: Google has been rolling out its new full-width redesign of Google Discover. But the issue is that it is taking publishers’ images and cropping them to fit this new width.
As Gagan Ghotra noted on X – Google Discover will crop your images to make it fit in the design. But that means, important aspects of the image may be cropped out.
He shared this image of one of my stories having the hero image cropped, here is a side by side:
Here are more:
Google rolling out full width design for Discover is a complete disaster – see the image in feed (left) and the image on page (right) – in the feed image is blurry. Google should have updated the technical & image size requirements for Discover first and then roll out the new… https://t.co/nRdTCGq3lM pic.twitter.com/8ebnoW5xrP
— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_) April 16, 2025
https://x.com/gaganghotra_/status/1912719609364713773
https://x.com/gaganghotra_/status/1911418141558665490
He is right, the Discover help documentation says, “Large images need to be at least 1200 px wide.” Maybe Google needs to update the documentation to account for this new design?
More News: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-full-width-redesign-cropping-images-39255.html