Reason why the number of accesses has explodedly increased simply by making a QR code

ByScott_bl8key

It is common to use QR codes on mobile terminals nowadays, and they are now being used as discount coupons and used for issuing tickets in addition to those, so they can be seen here and there. The ability to jump to the site when reading the QR code is not unusual. Although it was not strange to have access to the site by installing this QR code, it seems that there was a case that the number of access jumped up in a place where the person himself knows nothing about.

Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org? - Justinsomnia

Justin Watt says "Justinsomnia"We operate a site called" On the site, things Justin has eaten, traveling, technical story, outdoor life etc are spelled.


Justin made a QR code that can access this site in 2007. The following is the QR code.


As soon as I posted this QR code on my blog, when I enter "qr code (QR code))" in Google's image search, the QR code I made is displayed second I noticed that. It was BBC's QR code that was the first place at this point, and it is easy to understand because "BBC" and a logo are contained in the center here.


At this point, the page on which the QR code was written had become the most popular content in the site, with hundreds of accesses per day. And, as a result of this concentration of access, Justin's QR code became the number one in Google image search.

Then, the access explosively increased this time. Justin did not know at first for the reason, but eventually, "I realized that people who want samples of QR code now use this (access to Justinsonia) QR code" It was.

One concrete example,Indian BlackBerry official website. Although the design has changed at the moment, in the past, Justinsonnia's QR code was displayed on the mobile phone.


Russian SNS like Facebook clone "Vkontakte'Used as a buddy like this.


The shirt sold at the Brazilian mail order site, the QR code that came in that chest is a link to Justinsomnia. It is not a fan goods, but ... ....


Jumbo MobileChile's site called.


It also appeared in the demonstration movie of the open source OS project "MeeGo 1.0".

MeeGo 1.0 on Many Devices and Screen Sizes - YouTube


The QR code displayed on the screen when the mobile phone appears is that of Justinsomnia.


Here is a PayPal promotional video.

PayPal: Future of Shopping - YouTube


In the video that future PayPal shopping will be like this, the QR code that the man accesses is Justinsomnia's one.


This was made by a company in the Netherlands or Belgium "please scan the QR code right now and know our company", but the QR code is not from the company but from Justinsomnia. This is terrible.


In this phenomenon which grows no more with Justin at all, the QR code called Macanudos.es and the information blog of NFC tagJustinsomnia SyndromeI named it.

Although it seems that the number of accesses was 800 per day in the peak period, it showed calm from the beginning of 2011, and it seems that it reached about 40 to 50 accesses a day as of March 2011. The following is the graph, which summarizes the figures from December 2007 to February 2011. By the end of 2010 there were over 15,000 accesses per month.


Still the influence of this QR code is great, and Justin does not understand the mechanism of QR code, "Can you borrow the QR code for guidance to our URL for a limited time?" Such inquiries are coming.

How about the principal about this ... ... If not saying that it is not distributed under the Creative Commons license, QR code itself is functioning as a link to the distribution source site, so dissatisfied There are no particular things.