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Air Google makes it possible to inspect new job sites, hotels and vacation destinations, conduct market research, spy, carry out competitive surveillance, hunt for a job, trade property, study ecologies, jog trails and fish streams, among at least a million other things - virtually.

Silicon Valley's current enfants terrible - Google's brilliant duo -- have given the global populace wings to soar over towns and cities, and the flights include everything except peanuts. Fasten your seat belts.

Consider these two observations: -

First, every half century or so, advertisers accidentally tumble onto a new idea that makes the entire industry go bonkers for a decade or so - like neon lights, gigantic high-resolution billboards or Web sites.

Second, every half century or so, consumers get a break that revolutionizes their daily lives - like the light bulb, the credit card, the Internet - and now, Air Google. Aha! Bring your seat to an upright position.

From Flat-Screen Surfing to Three-Dimensional-Flying

Giving consumers the tools for aerial scanning and three-dimensional mapping of the world - allowing them to fly by their neighborhoods or make a detailed inspection of far away places - is radical. That's what Google Local and similar services - which I'm referring to collectively as "Air Google" - do through satellite image maps that provide a bird's-eye view of just about anyplace.

Air Google makes it possible to inspect new job sites, hotels and vacation destinations, conduct market research, spy, carry out competitive surveillance, hunt for a job, trade property, study ecologies, jog trails and fish streams, among at least a million other things - virtually.

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Naseem Javed, author of Naming for Power and Domain Wars, is recognized as a world authority on Global Name Identities and Domain Issues. He introduced The Laws of Corporate Naming in the 80's and also founded ABC Namebank, a consultancy established in New York and Toronto, a quarter century ago.