Google Earth, Google Sketchup, and other picture/satellite image search offerings are the latest tools that put visual reference to an online search, and help communicate multiple datapoints quickly (e.g. address, web location, physical location, and directions). Search is quickly becoming more information rich, dimensional, and intuitive.

What’s next? Search will very soon be a dimensional and dynamic virtual world ala Second Life. This has been rumored for some time, and Google’s search tools in development all seem to be pointing in this direction.

But if there’s any question, have look at this.

Everyscape.com looks like the next step in a metaverse of search. One can only guess at what the Google folks will bring us very soon.