Knowledge base v2.13.0 · Community edition · data through 2 October 2026
Day 3 · Friday 2 October 2026 · 11:45
Slides only: Discover eligibility, E-E-A-T and large image requirements. No recording; the presenter is not named on the photographed slides.
Google's Discover slide showed an eligibility gate: content with a policy violation goes to a policy compliance check and low-quality content to an E-E-A-T quality check, and both can end with the content filtered out, while safe and trusted content becomes eligible for Discover.
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Google's Discover slide said that for eligible content image quality decides click-through: a small thumbnail lowers the click-through rate and a large, high-resolution image raises it.
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Google's Discover slide defined E-E-A-T: experience means first-hand, personal experience with the topic, expertise the necessary knowledge or skill, and authoritativeness the extent to which the creator or website is known as a go-to source for the topic.
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Google's Discover slide said trust comes first: untrustworthy pages have low E-E-A-T however experienced, expert or authoritative they seem.
“untrustworthy pages will have low E-E-A-T no matter how Experienced, Expert or Authoritative they may seem”
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Google's Discover slide recommended large images at least 1,200 px wide, with more than 300,000 total pixels and a 16x9 aspect ratio, enabled by the max-image-preview:large setting.
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Google's Discover slide said to avoid generic images, such as a site logo, and text-heavy images.
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Google's Discover slide said images are subject to the same policy requirements as the content and that misleading, exaggerated or outrageous images should be avoided.
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Google's closing Discover slide pointed to the Discover content policies in Google Search Help and to the Search Central documentation.
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Google's Discover documentation says content is automatically eligible for Discover if it is indexed and meets Discover's content policies, needs no special tags or structured data, and is not guaranteed to appear.
Publisher Google Search Central
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Google's Discover documentation says Discover uses many of the same signals and systems as Search to determine what is helpful, people-first content.
Publisher Google Search Central
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Google's Discover documentation says to specify the large image with schema.org markup or the og:image meta tag, which can influence the thumbnail Discover chooses, and that a vertical image cropped to 16x9 must keep its important details.
Publisher Google Search Central
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Google's Discover content policies ask news sources for clear dates and bylines, information about the authors, publication and publisher, and contact information, and say repeated or egregious violations can make a site ineligible for Discover.
Publisher Google Search Help
For Discover, set max-image-preview:large on article templates, give every article a relevant image at least 1,200 px wide in og:image or schema.org markup that is neither the site logo nor text-heavy, and show clear bylines and dates.
Author Ibrahim Anjro
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Google's Discover slide recommended large images at least 1,200 px wide, with more than 300,000 total pixels and a 16x9 aspect ratio, enabled by the max-image-preview:large setting.
max-image-preview:large matters mainly in Discover, where it allows a large image that draws people's attention, so the rule can make a page more visible than leaving it out, John Mueller said.
Google's Discover slide recommended large images at least 1,200 px wide, with more than 300,000 total pixels and a 16x9 aspect ratio, enabled by the max-image-preview:large setting.
Setting the max-image-preview robots meta tag to large can make content perform surprisingly well in Discover, Gary Illyes said.