Comments on: Offline Web Links! What??????

By: Google Stops QR Codes For Google Places | Search Engine People | Toronto

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:04:29 +0000

[...] a surprising and silent move Google has stopped offering QR codes in the Google Places dashboard of [...]

By: jim

jim — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:30:27 +0000

It's a very attractive idea.

However, why not simply put on your web address. Take a picture of it then text recognition can either store the address for you on the phone or send you to the site?

That means people without mobile phones can jot it down. Or if they go past in their car too quickly they can at least try and decipher the smeared image of the web site address.

By: Jeff Quipp

Jeff Quipp — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:14:43 +0000

Good point Heidi! I also imagine companies will want the codes to resemble their logos where possible too. That would certianly be a leg up to someone in the space.

By: Heidi Cool

Heidi Cool — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:21:52 +0000

Sprint is doing something similar where the barcodes look more like crossword puzzles. They loaned our university a batch of the accompanying phones this summer and our orientation team had students use them on a scavenger hunt. It looked pretty cool. Of course seeing the differences in the barcodes I expect we're going into yet another betamax vs. VHS situation, in which the different versions compete for buy-in.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:39:10 +0000

Yeah, I bet. Nokia is doing something similar but with RFID btw.

By: Jeff Quipp

Jeff Quipp — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:34:56 +0000

@ Wiep … great find! The potential applications, and evolution of applications is nothing short of mind boggling.

By: Wiep

Wiep — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:17:15 +0000

This is interesting as well: http://www.evryx.com/evryx/demo.html (from the SEOmoz post's comments)

Links based on pictures only. Shoot a picture of a car and get redirected to the web page of that exact model. Awesome.

By: Jeff Quipp

Jeff Quipp — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:39:30 +0000

@ Tad … think StuntDubl will put that on his job board?

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:37:12 +0000

Wow! I already see SEOs teaming up with street artists…

By: Jeff Quipp

Jeff Quipp — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:26:29 +0000

@ Wiep … great idea! Imagine beer companies giving such coaster to bars, to try to convince patrons to try their beers, participate in a contest, join in a trivia challenge, etc.

@ Linda … absolutely. In fact, business cards could realistically take a different form now.

@ Wayne – you're spot on … uptake is the key.