Google Discover Cropping Publisher Images In New Full Width Redesign

Apr 18, 2025 - 7:11 am 1 by
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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:

Google Discover Full Width Cropping Images

Here are more:

He did reach out to Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, on social but he has yet to reply:

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?

Forum discussion at X.

 

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