“What if you could end where to shop, verify or secure out, with a lowercase support from topical Google users?

It strength verify you a patch to communicate them all, so to attain it easier we’ve launched a newborn try to beam pane decals to over 100,000 topical businesses in the U.S. that hit been the most wanted discover and researched on Google.com and Google Maps. We’re occupation these businesses the “Favorite Places on Google” and you’ll today move to encounter them in over 9,000 towns and cities, in every 50 states. You crapper also explore a distribution of the Favorite Places in 20 of the maximal U.S. cities at google.com/favoriteplaces. Each pane amount has a unequalled forbid code, known as a QR code that you crapper construe with some of hundreds of ambulatory devices — including iPhone, Android-powered phones, BlackBerry and more — to verify you direct to that business’s Place Page on your ambulatory phone. With your ambulatory phone and these newborn decals, you crapper easily go up to a front and directly encounter reviews, get a coupon if the playing is substance one or star a business as a locate you poverty to advert for the future. Soon, you’ll be healthy to yield a analyse on the ambulatory tender as well, meet same on your desktop.

To construe the codes, you’ll requirement a phone with a camera and an app that crapper feature QR codes. For Android-powered devices, including the Droid by Motorola, we propose using the liberated Barcode Scanner app. For iPhone, we hit institute the $1.99 QuickMark app to impact best, and play today, we’re partnering with QuickMark to substance the app for free for the prototypal 40,000 downloads. For another devices, we propose intelligent for “QR reader” in your app marketplace, if it has one, or searching for the support of your phone and [qr reader] on Google. BeeTagg and NeoReader are digit another apps that we’ve institute to impact substantially with the decals.

Here’s a recording that shows you how this every works:

This start is conception of our coverall try — online and offline — to wage you with the prizewinning topical playing results whenever you’re disagreeable to amount discover where to go, whether it’s a trendy state edifice in Philly, a comics class in L.A., a enarthrosis hotel in NYC or a lowercase taste of photographic story in Rochester, N.Y.

We organisation to periodically beam discover newborn waves of pane decals to limiting businesses. If you possess or control a playing and were designated as a Favorite Place, you haw hit already conventional your amount or, for most of you, it module come by accumulation in the incoming one to digit weeks. If you weren’t designated in this round, your prototypal travel is to verify your organisation with Google’s Local Business Center for free. That module support us watch that your playing aggregation is correct. Then, you crapper compound your topical playing organisation by adding enhanced noesis same photos and videos.

To explore a room of individual cardinal Favorite Places in 20 U.S. cities, to see more most how to ingest the QR codes and to encounter discover how your playing crapper intend involved, analyse discover google.com/favoriteplaces.”

[Via Google Blog]