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Re:URLs Are Totally Out In Japan by rgrieselhuber on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @09:27PM (#146396)
I've noticed this too since moving to Japan a month ago.

You could probably take it even one step further - replace search boxes and URLs with QR codes(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code).

They're everywhere in Japan now.

You just scan the code with your (5.1 MP) mobile camera and it loads the URL directly in your mobile browser.

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Re:URLs Are Totally Out In Japan by pmjordan on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @05:50AM (#146717)
Wow. So the CueCat[1] really was ahead of its time!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

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Re:URLs Are Totally Out In Japan by rgrieselhuber on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @06:08AM (#146722)
Very much so.

I'd expect to see similar implementations coming back, on a larger scale. It's a lot of what John Battelle writes about as the next evolution of search. It's just with the SERPs flipped inside out (they find you) and plastered all over books, posters, etc.

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