Google now displays image thumbnails next to search snippets for food-related queries
Now when you do food-related searches on Google, you may see image thumbnails right in the snippets.
Barry Schwartz on May 27, 2016 at 8:26 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google is now displaying image thumbnails in the main web search results page when you do food-related searches. It seems most searchers are seeing this now, something Google has tested one way another for months.
I do not think it is related to the new rich cards feature that is available for recipes and movies. It seems that this works on non-recipe websites as well, without the structured markup.
Here are pictures of how it looks for various food-related queries on both desktop and mobile Google results:
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.