Sloppy seconds...

Mea culpa...

Upon further review of my post and the Google Earth site, I realized I was sloppy in contradicting myself about the program.

It IS NOT web-based. It IS a downloaded program that streams in the data from any part of the Internet (and Google's servers, I'd imagine) as you need it. Its interface DEFINITELY resembles a GIS program. ESRI SHOULD be concerned if Google can eventually allow users to download any type of data and integrate it for their personal use, especially if the Pro version is only $400 US versus thousands of dollars for a program like ArcGIS 9...

I'm just waitin' on the Mac version now.