Google has been rolling out its new full-width redesign of Google Uncover. However the situation is that it’s taking publishers’ photos and cropping them to suit this new width.
As Gagan Ghotra famous on X – Google Uncover will crop your photos to make it match within the design. However meaning, vital facets of the picture could also be cropped out.
He shared this picture of one in every of my tales having the hero picture cropped, here’s a aspect by aspect:
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@rustybrick oops even SER photos are slicing off and an excessive amount of zoomed in now within the feeds of customers. pic.twitter.com/J2tgMjOL7l
— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_) April 17, 2025
He did attain out to Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, on social however he has but to answer:
FYI – With new full width design rolling out for Uncover feed, I am noticing some featured photos getting an excessive amount of stretched out on person gadgets and changing into blurry (may affect CTR 🙃). Be sure to test if it is occurring along with your photos too cuz even those aligned with… https://t.co/gM9RYAjPPx
— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_) April 13, 2025
He’s proper, the Uncover assist documentation says, “Massive photos must be not less than 1200 px huge.” Perhaps Google must replace the documentation to account for this new design?
Discussion board dialogue at X.
