Google has eliminated an experimental feature that allowed people quoted in articles in Google News to post comments on those articles. People in the news media were intrigued by the idea of giving article subjects the power to comment, and the idea drew considerable coverage. But the feature never got a lot of use -– the company declined to provide numbers –- and it was dropped without an announcement in May. “We’re always experimenting with [...]

Google today announced the public alpha release of their new data management product Google Fusion Tables that focuses on fusing data management and collaboration by offering means to merge multiple data sources and to query, visualize, discuss and publish the data on the Internet. Users with a Google account, for example one from a Gmail account, can access Google Fusion Tables right away. Each user gets 250 Megabytes of storage space on the Google servers [...]