Well, once again the reigning master of the web, Google, has a new plan to take you where no netizen has ever been before! This time it's a realistic ride around the Earth.

Not quite long since their acquisition of the digital mapping company, G has come straight out with their latest service plan to introduce Google Earth to their devoted query snappers. It's not another Gmail kinda thing, but a big one, very big one.

Google Earth is a free satellite mapping software which presents high-resolution images of the Earth, which you can spin like a beach ball before zooming in closer to examine streets, parks and anything else on the planet. Start with your very home, move on to your workplace, surprise your boss and then travel across the globe to somewhere else you'd rather be. With G Earth you could choose any destination of your choice then control and view it in three dimensions with colour and a softer landing.

Even though much of the functionality is in the areas of the United States, it still provides mappings across major cities in the world. And what more you could even spot tons of cafés, railways, hotels, roads, cities and even gas stations viewing everything from ridges at the bottom of oceans to the Vatican.

This is a tool that G would most like hope to develop continuously unlike others and its also one of those that will be open to many controversial issues and probably even legal disputes. Google plans to add more high-resolution graphics in coming months with the facility to map crime statistics, schools and other details.

Google has now given the ideal tool to make a free, quick and real visit to your favorite place on earth virtually and I don't think there's anyone who wouldn't want to make it count. Talking about anyone, I'm waiting till someone shouts out "We've got maps too"! Hello, err, M$??