Why Google’s Slapping Decals on Small Businesses

Courtesy Mashable!  Mon, 12/07/2009 - 14:12

google qr codesQR codes are those funky-looking barcodes that you’ll sometimes spot on print marketing materials or even pedicabs.

While QR codes do offer you a unique way to use your mobile phone camera to capture/scan the code to retrieve a message, they haven’t been embraced by the mainstream population.

But can Google change that?

In an effort to beef up attention for their Place Pages project within Google Maps, which is in direct competition with Yelp, Google...


 

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