Google refuses QR codes in Places

Last week a lot of questions from users appeared on the Google forums who wondered: what happened to the QR codes with the Places Dashboard and how now people print them? It used to be so convenient: you could encode your URL and distribute it offline. But then the QR generation disappeared.

And just now a comment from Google appeared : it turns out, QR codes disappeared from Places, because the company “is exploring new ways of providing users with the ability to quickly and easily search for information about local businesses from their mobile phones.

Obviously, we are talking about NFC (near field communications). Recently it became obvious that Google made a choice in favor of this technology. The NFC chip is built into the Nexus S smartphone and they test NFC for mobile payments .

According to experts , the widespread use of NFC in Android smartphones (and NFC support appeared there since Android 2.3) is very important for Google, since it is a link between online advertising and directly points of sale. Small businesses are placing a significant portion of search advertising, so getting geolocation data from millions of user devices will raise advertising targeting to a whole new level. Although someone may consider this a nightmare for privacy.
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Such NFC support was reflected in the most disastrous way on QR codes.