# Search experiences in South Africa: badge and refinement chip


This page describes features for South Africa in Google Search, including the South African badge
and South African refinement chips, for travel, products, car hire, bus booking, and food
delivery searches. These experiences aim to:

- Improve the visibility of South African platforms on the search results page.
- Make it easier for users to filter and explore South African results.

## "South African" badge


A "South African" badge is shown on the search results page, for applicable web results and
advertisements from eligible South African platforms. This badge doesn't change the ranking of
results. This badge is available for web results for travel, car hire, bus
booking, products, and food delivery queries in South Africa. It's also available for
advertisements in travel and shopping for eligible South African platforms.
![South African badge on a Google Search result](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/south-african-badge.png)

## "South African" refinement chip


Refinement chips can help users focus the Search page on specific types of web results. Searchers
in South Africa can activate the "South African" refinement chip at the top of the Search results
page to refine their view to eligible South African travel and shopping platforms. Eligible South
African platforms don't need to add any markup to appear using the refinement chip.
![South African refinement chip in Google Search](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/south-african-refinement-chip.png)

## Learn more and express interest


These experiences are launched to eligible sites in South Africa only. If your business is
based in South Africa, you think you're eligible for these experiences, and you'd like to
express interest, you can start by filling out this
[interest form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1A58eYZwtsXx-uVP3CbFY9Bwa6OuYWvlzxFy5mY_58Hk/viewform).