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[srowen]

fuego your posts on this topic are full of incorrect information. It deserves a correction.

- Google has never created or backed its own barcode format. Google has always backed QR Codes.
- Google created the 'zxing' project, which encodes and decodes QR Codes (among other formats). It was created specifically to support this format, for use in print ads
- The Barcode Scanner application is effectively, then, Google's reader. Many readers exist on Android though (not NeoReader for some reason?)
- Does it work? Look up 'barcode' on the Android market. 15 of the 19 barcode apps you see there use Google's zxing project. You can judge
- At the Google I/O conference in question, the zxing project from Google was used to encode the QR Codes
- http://googleio.appspot.com/qrhunt leads you to download Barcode Scanner, from Google

Hope that helps. I am not sure then, in what sense, Google is not using its own reader.