Google badge extracted to SERPs

[richcowley]

It's a while ago that (i thought) I read the following information on the Google badge.

Here https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/ we have the implementation guide, however I was under the impression the Google badge could be thereafter extracted into SERPs so the user could follow etc... direct from SERPs.

I can't find anything confirming this. I think that it might clash with authorship data which does a similar job, but where a site page is not relevant to authorship at all, I would have thought linking back to the G+ page from SERPs was a sensible option.

Can anyone confirm the Google badge can appear in SERPs?

[Bristolweb]

hi richcowley

sorry not much information here but I believe they do show Google +  badges on relevant SERPs showing the number of + results for that site, article. although  how this is linked in i am not sure

This can also be seen here: google has also removed the checkout badge to make way for the + badges

http://searchengineland.com/google-eliminates-checkout-badge-from-serps-79472

"The move comes as Google steps up efforts to increase adoption of +1, another brightly-colored badge appearing in search results. Earlier today, the company announced that publishers can now put +1 badges on their sites to gather support from their users. When people click the +1 button on sites, that URL displays with the badge whenever it appears in SERPs."

[richcowley]

Think they are only referring to the +1 badges which by default are on SERPS. The Google+ badge doesn't appear to have a presence (at least on the searches I've made). Google badges should be crawled as a rich snippet in my opinion - I had thought they were but now not so sure.