Are the Google Stars different from the ProvenExpert stars?

What are Google Stars?

• ProvenExpert offers the rating information that Google can display in the form of stars.
• At ProvenExpert, the term "Google Stars" refers to the stars that are displayed in the organic search results.

Example of stars in Google search results:

• In order to display the Google Stars for your website, you need to include the rich snippet (this is a code snippet that ProvenExpert provides) in your website's code - either individually or in combination with the PRO Seal.
• To display the Google Stars for your ProvenExpert profile in the search results, you do not have to do anything else. This happens automatically.

What are ProvenExpert stars?

• ProvenExpert shows stars on your ProvenExpert seals and in the ProvenExpert profile.
• The stars reflect your overall rating score, which is made up of ProvenExpert reviews and ratings from other review sources.

Example:

PRO Seal:

Stars on the ProvenExpert profile:

So how are ProvenExpert stars related to Google Stars?

• The rich snippet accesses the rating information from the ProvenExpert profile and allows the Google crawler to read (crawl) this information so that stars can be displayed in the organic search results.