• Search Engine Land, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:17 PM

Google's Latitude location-aware friend finder has added location history and alerts, which, one Location History is enabled by a user, tells them when friends are in the area. The system is even smart enough to recognize routine places like home and work so it will only send alerts when you and your friends are in an "unusual place."

"Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work," the service's engineers write in a blog post. "Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time." Once turned on, Location History tracks a user's trip, movements and places where they've been, and then creates a record of travels or activities. One could establish, for example, a My Map later of favorite places through Location History.

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