Google Testing Larger News Photos In Search Results
Google Operating System reports Google is testing showing larger photos in the News OneBox Google Web results page. Often, when you search for news related topics in Google.com, Google will show news results at the top, middle or bottom of the results. This is part of Google’s universal search launch from years ago. Often, the […]
Barry Schwartz on July 2, 2013 at 9:33 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google Operating System reports Google is testing showing larger photos in the News OneBox Google Web results page.
Often, when you search for news related topics in Google.com, Google will show news results at the top, middle or bottom of the results. This is part of Google’s universal search launch from years ago.
Often, the news onebox result will show a small photo next to the news items.
Now, it seems Google is testing showing larger news photos.
Here is a screen shot from Google Operating System showing the larger version of the news OneBox photo:
Here is what it typically looks like:
Google News began using larger images on on the Google News portal just a month or so ago.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
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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.