Given recent events, it’s not hard to imagine that a significant number of Google employees got lost as children and are still traumatized. How else to explain the wave of location-based features flowing out of the software labs in Mountain View, Calif.?

Of course, less fanciful explanations are more probable: The Google engineers are just having fun exploring what can be done with GPS and social-networking tools, or eventually location-based advertising is likely to be a effective current

in Google’s revenue stream. The question is just how creepy users will find Google’s heightened fascination with where they are.

Sent From: Well, Sort of

Google’s newest offering is a Google Labs feature that can append your current location to outgoing e-mails as part of the signature block. Once the feature is enabled in Gmail settings, a new check box will seem underneath your signature block: “Append your location to the […]

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