This afternoon Matt Cutts buzzed the following:
Here’s a new trick that hasn’t been blogged yet! Google’s url shortener at goo.gl can generate QR codes (which are 2D barcodes) just by appending “.qr” after the goo.gl url. So the url http://goo.gl/727X does a redirect to http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ and the url http://goo.gl/727X.qr will generate a QR code that also goes to http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ . Pretty cool, huh? Please share this trick widely. :)
If you are unfamiliar with QR Codes, you can read my primer entitled “Blackberry Messenger Code ‘Decoded’: QR Code Explained and Free Generator.”
The easiest way to use the goo.gl URL shortner is to install Chrome MUSE in Google’s Chrome browser.
This is an example of a QR Code, one that would take the scanning device to the @techbottle twitter page:
@techbottle on twitter
[via Google Buzz]
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