We've covered product images within the search result snippets many times but here are even more variations where Google is showing up to several images across the snippet in the search results, but sometimes as few as three.
These were spotted by Brodie Clark who wrote on X, "Google looks to be heavily testing changes to the multi-image thumbnail treatment right now." He added, "In some cases, they've even started to default to a different treatment. Where instead of showing the standard 7 images, this has decreased to 3."
Here are the before and after screenshots from Brodie:
Here are some of our older stories covering these:
- Google Tests Search Result Snippet Product Listings & Local Images
- Google Showing Product Image Thumbnails In Search Snippets More Often
- More Seeing Product Images In Google Desktop Search Result Snippets
- Google Tests Product Image Thumbnails On Desktop
- Google Mobile Showing Image Thumbnails In Some Search Result Snippets
- Google Tests Larger Product Images For Search Snippets Again
- Google Search Product Image Thumbnail Snippets With Pricing Overlays
Forum discussion at X.
