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Google Allows Comments on News

by Gilad on August 9th, 2007

Google announced yesterday of an experimental feature which will allows readers to comment on related news entries posted on Google News. However, before you rush over to Google News to start commenting you may want to know that only people / companies mentioned in the related article will be allowed to submit a comment and Google promises to publish these comments in their entirety.

We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question. Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we’ll show them next to the articles about the story. Comments will be published in full, without any edits, but marked as “comments” so readers know it’s the individual’s perspective, rather than part of a journalist’s report.

Information on submitting comments is posted here.

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