Google has been placing images and product images in the search results for a while and been testing on and off showing them in the desktop results. But over the past few days, more and more are seeing product images in the desktop search result snippets in Google Search.
Note, I believe this is from the Search On roll out of more shop-able results rolling out more broadly now.
Here is a screenshot I can replicate of Amazon and other sites showing product images directly in the snippets (click to enlarge):
Here are some tweets I received over the past few days of people asking me if this is new:
Seen today for the first time: thumbnails and image lists…. on desktop. This is not mobile.
The search results truly are becoming more visual. pic.twitter.com/d89SypruTM
— Kevin_Indig (@Kevin_Indig) November 13, 2021
Is this new? @rustybrick
