Google updated its image SEO best practices and Google Discover documentation to clarify how Google picks a preferred image thumbnail for Google Search and Google Discover. Google wrote it “uses both schema.org markup and the og:image meta tag as sources when determining image thumbnails in Google Search and Discover.”
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