Google seems to be testing a portrait mode, i.e. taller mode, for the top stories in the mobile search results. Valentin Pletzer shared some screen shots with me on Twitter and you can see, some are videos and some are just tall images as opposed to square or wide images.
Here is what he saw:
Compare that to what I see:
Here are some more screen shots from Valentin:
If I wasn't able to reproduce it I would believe that's a bug: new newsbox layout #google #seo #mobile cc @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/4AhfebNG0B
— Valentin Pletzer (@VorticonCmdr) March 11, 2019
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Update: Here are more shots of it in action:
