Announced on its blog, Google News will be taking it’s News 2.0 to an even higher level by trying out a new feature on their website that allows individuals involved in news stories to post their view points next to the published news item. However, in order to send comments to Google, those parties involved will have to email Google with a link to the story that they are commenting on, as well as a way for Google to authenticate their identity. All appropriate information must be included in the email, and no attachments are allowed. For more information, click for help here.

This new feature raises some important points:

Unique comments made could result in the exclusivity of information for Google. Viewers would have to go specifically to Google News, as opposed to the original news source from which the feed was aggregated from in order to obtain additional insight from involved parties. This would attract a huge amount of attention to Google, which would probably fuel the fire that already exists between Google and disgruntled news sources.

This new feature has potentially severe ramifications for journalists. With the uprise in blogging, journalists have come under fire. Now that all of these comments will be posted in one place next to a story published by a journalist, their credibility will once again be scruitinized.

Although I think it’s a great idea, how exactly, beyond taking someone’s email at face value, is Google going to verify the validity of their involvement in the news story? Google, being rather adept with algorithmic-driven solutions, is not exactly experienced with human interaction. It will be interesting to see how Google will deal with an influx of new data of a different kind.

Google is currently only testing its comment feature in the United States, but may release this feature beyond these borders if interest peaks.

And knowing how popular Google is, this is very likely. Watch out newspapers. They way we read the news could change dramatically… and quickly.