Google Explains Why Images Are Gone From Some SERPs

Google’s John Mueller offered a suggestion about a long-standing problem with missing images in search results for recipe sites but recipe bloggers don’t seem convinced or satisfied. Also, second issue, sites are reporting they can’t get any new recipes into the carousel in over a month! Regardless, Mueller’s statement does imply that there is no outage and that the decrease in image thumbnails is the new normal. Food and recipe sites invest time and money into equipment for photographing food to accompany their articles as well as in researching and testing recipes. That explains how disheartening it must feel to see those image thumbnails disappear.