ehm , is avaible from 21/04/2006
a not_so_fresh news :-)
so , are you ready to authorize my request of "add to my friends" ?

Salut!

Thanks. Dunno why Google is still advertising this as "new" to me, probably it's a personal setting that shows up whenever you log-in.

Even if it is relatively old, that function is so 1990s! I'm surprised it wasn't available previously.

Google is ahead of most, but it amazes me when they forget the basics.

Not even an Orkut user...

Google was very evil when it released this feature.
It started logging profile views days before it has gone public. In the day that this feature was finally avaiable, it displayed profile views that happened during this test period. There was no way to avoid being in someone else recent list because the feature was enabled by default and updated only once a day.

This feature was available to orkut users from the very first day. They stopped doing it because it made their server run like a turtle, thats why they dropped this feature. Now its back.