: How does the Google Images preview panel work, and why is it not showing my image? In Google Images, when an image is clicked in search results, an "image preview" appears with a blurry image

@Sherry384

The Google servers convert the high resolution images to low resolution images during image search so as to increase the page loading time and save the bandwidth!
there is nothing much you can do about it..
Sorry..

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@Eichhorn148

It may be because the image is being served from Google's server rather than your server in the image preview. Let me give you an example.

I did a Google image search for "scenery". I changed the search tools to only look for "large" images, and I found this:



As you can see it is shown in very poor quality with obvious JPEG artifacts in the sky around the clouds. Unlike other images in the page, it was not swapped out by my browser (Chrome) for a better quality image. This appears to be because the image URL used in this large preview is: encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMlmFajhgytLiLaTr330wB4LNOFcWcKW5Pb71QpWDAGdOzUh3P which is a small thumbnail from Google's server. Other images in the search results use the site to power the preview. For example the Image next to it uses the preview image of www.hdwallpapersart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Scenery.jpg.
In this particular case Google may be doing this because the site in question has some type of hotlinking protection in place. They are using redirects when you link directly from the image url.


When I paste wallpaperswide.com/download/summer_scenery-wallpaper-2048x1536.jpg into my browser, it shows me an HTML page of wallpaperswide.com/summer_scenery-wallpapers.html instead. I can than click on the links and the images save as downloads.
When I use curl, I get a 302 redirect to /summer_scenery-wallpapers.html
When I use wget I get the redirect to the same page, but then wget is able to download the image data from the html page and save it as a .jpg


Based on this investigation, it appears that Google has some algorithms in place to detect that images won't work (or might not work) when hot linked in the image preview. In such cases, it uses a lower quality thumbnail served from its own servers in place.

EDIT: On May 4, 2015 Google announced that they fixed a bug that was causing images to look low quality and blurry in search results. Hopefully this will no longer be an issue.

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@Mendez628

The thumbnail image in Google Image results are coming from Google cache server.

However, the image preview is the real hosted image (your real live image).

The image is resized in preview mode by the HTML code width="" height=""—that's the reason why your image has poor quality, because the browser does a blurry resize on images.

Try to resize your image to fit better proportions in X and Y or try to build a JavaScript that switches directly to your image.

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@Sherry384

I think, the phenomenon of blurry and clear versions is generated by your Internet connection's speed.
When did you change your image? I think you should not worry and give Googlebot more time to recrawl it.

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