With the ever-growing amount of products and data at their disposal, Google has the power to do some really cool integrations. Yesterday two new ones appeared in Google Earth, the ability to see real-time traffic data, and the ability to see passages from books that mention the area you are flying over in Google Earth.

Though both things were previously integrated with Google Maps – I’m glad to have the data in the more immersive Google Earth now, especially the book layer feature. It’s the little things like this that often go overlooked, but that Google does so well and helps to create the subtleties that make their products so great.

Now they just need to do the big integration: melding Google Maps and Google Earth into one all-encompassing web app. Of course I’m hoping they wait until the state of American broadband is a bit better until they launch such an undertaking, less it lag like Microsoft’s Live Maps.