Offline/online vicinity-pinging stalking tool Dodgeball has announced this afternoon that it has been purchased by Google, further proving that Google will indeed take over the world. [/sarcasm] For those not familiar with it, Dodgeball is a meatspace tool that allows folks to get pinged with text messages whenever friends are in your general vicinity, and your friends get a message whenever you're in their vicinity, all based on pre-done settings.

Founders Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, while surely doing well with some GOOG stock right now, appear to be staying on board to continue pushing Dodgeball's growth into new markets and applications. Find out more about the deal and the company's future here in the Q&A the company has posted.

On one hand, this means we probably won't need to have multiple mobile social softwares (MoSoSos for those of you scoring at home). On the other, it means that (do-doo-do-doo) technically, Google would know where you were all the time. And by "Google" I mean the massive brain that is the online resource, not any individual or group.

[update] Rex Hammock says that the founders were "acqhired." I'll take that on and declare this a successful acqhisition by Google.