While advertisers find new ways to tie in with display marketing giants like Google and Facebook, consumers can't help but feel like it's all getting a little too familiar. Now, Phillips & Sons---a firm in Austin, Texas---is offering small businesses a novel way to advertise on Google.

Called Blue Marble, this new method involves creating QR codes on rooftops/terraces, which will eventually show up on Google Maps and Google Earth. Users will be able to zoom into these QR codes, and use their phones to access specific advertising and marketing content.

This is by no means an effective way to advertise on Google (run-of-the-mill Google display ads will offer more eyeballs), but it's nonetheless a new and exciting way to draw consumers in. Since the images can take almost a year to show up (without Google's involvement), a tie-up with the search-engine giant would be more effective.

With Google offering 3D-rendered buildings on Google Earth and Google Maps' Earth View, it seems like it's only a short period of time before advertisers let potential buyers inside the digital avatars of their brick-and-mortar stores for a sneak peek at what they can find.

Would you access content through a QR code you found on Google Maps/Google Earth? Or would you consider it overkill? Let us know in the comments below.

- Tyrel Rodricks