Users of Google News now have the ability to add comments to individual news items. Comments give people related to a news story the chance to directly respond to it. These comments are linked to alongside the normal media coverage for that story. This feature helps provide more perspectives on a particular story without sacrificing the quality of our coverage. Additionally, these comments provide a unique insight, because they come from individuals who otherwise may not have had an opportunity to share their responses.

Gmail's codebase has been revamped and this allowed Google to push out more of Gmail's features to Google Apps users. Employees, students and other Google Apps users will soon start seeing useful features like these: