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It seems some of that nifty Jaiku tech is finding its way into other Google offerings.

Google today announced 'My Location', which has an unfortunately-windows-ish kinda ring to it, software which "...uses cell tower ID information to provide users with their approximate location, helping them determine where they are, what's around them, and how to get there."

Yeah, cool.

The press release also states "This approximation is anonymous, as Google does not gather any personally identifiable information or associate any location data with personally identifiable information as part of the My Location feature." Okay, maybe not personal information, but if there's gonna be some ad revenue to be had here, Google's gonna snoop in on something (ie. does the owner of this handset prefer Pizza or Chinese?).

I would love to try this sucka out, but I'm in Canada, and apparently Google doesn't consider us a valid location ("You current location is temporarily unavailable"). Not a real surprise. So, if there are any folks out there that want to submit a little review of the working app, send me an email: jordan[at]fandroid.net.