A couple months back, Google quietly dropped the feature to comment on Google News. Yes, Google allowed those cited or mentioned in articles to comment on the stories, here is a look at how that worked.

For the first time, I have seen a thread in Google News Help forum asking why Google removed it. Inbal from Google responded with the official PR statement from Google:

Honestly, I wasn’t a big fan of this feature, simply because it just seemed out of the norm and hard for Google to maintain.

Forum discussion at Google News Help.