Google Now Alerts You When Airfare Drops

By now most Android users are familiar with Google Now, the app that shows you relevant “cards” based on things you’ve searched for: appointments in your calendar, your location and general habits, favorite restaurants, etc.

While we’re occasionally crept out by how closely Google Now watches our daily routine (the reminder popping up that traffic may be heavy for our regular Dunkin Donuts run is helpful, but weirdly intimate), we have to admit that these cards are pretty useful.

And now, they’re going to save travelers a lot of money. In a blog post Wednesday, Google rolled out the latest feature of Google Now: Flight Search.

The post reads: “Love a good airfare deal but don’t have the time to monitor prices? Google can help make sure you don’t miss a good deal — when the price drops on a flight you’ve been eyeing, you may see a Now card letting you know. Just tap on the card to get to Flight Search where you can quickly and easily book your trip.”

The post adds that this functionality is currently only available on Android in the U.S. for now if you’ve searched for flights on Google.

So if the tradeoff for Google providing us cards by way of profiling us based on our every move online is that we save a few bucks on airfare, consider us OK with that. Now if you'll excuse us, Google has just alerted us that we're late for our regular doughnut run.

Source: Travel Pulse