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Never heard of this before. For anybody else wondering, it seems to be a more structured version of the IAmA subreddit.

Igglyboo 12y ago
Same here. Just wanted to chime in before everyone starts talking about how google never sticks with their products, this is relatively unknown and better alternatives exist. There is no reason to keep this service up.
- mintplant 12y ago
  I was frankly surprised to see it still up. I assumed it had shut down years ago.
jedc 12y ago
It was launched in September 2008 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Moderator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Moderator
itafroma 12y ago
The one person I saw using it, at least when it was relatively new, was Matt Cutts to organize the questions asked for the daily Google Webmasters videos. Though those seemed to have died out almost a year ago, and they had moved to the Product Forums by then anyway.
thrownaway2424 12y ago
It was used for a US presidential election debate in 2008 and 2012. But other than influencing the course of human history it has enjoyed little traction.
- hansjorg 12y ago
  Yes, what joy to witness such exquisite debate by those enlightened orators and masters of rhetoric. Truly something for the ages.
  - DannyBee 12y ago
    It was also used for the egyptian constitution :)
    - donnahanafi 12y ago
      Really? haha. How cool, do you have any links?
      - DannyBee 12y ago
        Some of the blog posts have died. General details are linked from footnotes in http://www.yjil.org/docs/pub/39-1-comment-randolph-the-revolutionary-spirit-in-egypt.pdf http://www.yjil.org/docs/pub/39-1-comment-randolph-the-revol... One of the moderator series is at: https://www.google.com/moderator/?hl=ar#15/e=581e0&t=581e0.40&f=581e0.6a1891 https://www.google.com/moderator/?hl=ar#15/e=581e0&t=581e0.4... Note that moderator is not only available in a ton of languages, it can do auto-translation between all language pairs google translate supports.

Same here. Just wanted to chime in before everyone starts talking about how google never sticks with their products, this is relatively unknown and better alternatives exist. There is no reason to keep this service up.

mintplant 12y ago
I was frankly surprised to see it still up. I assumed it had shut down years ago.

jedc 12y ago

It was launched in September 2008 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Moderator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Moderator

itafroma 12y ago

The one person I saw using it, at least when it was relatively new, was Matt Cutts to organize the questions asked for the daily Google Webmasters videos. Though those seemed to have died out almost a year ago, and they had moved to the Product Forums by then anyway.

thrownaway2424 12y ago

It was used for a US presidential election debate in 2008 and 2012. But other than influencing the course of human history it has enjoyed little traction.

hansjorg 12y ago
Yes, what joy to witness such exquisite debate by those enlightened orators and masters of rhetoric. Truly something for the ages.
- DannyBee 12y ago
  It was also used for the egyptian constitution :)
  - donnahanafi 12y ago
    Really? haha. How cool, do you have any links?
    - DannyBee 12y ago
      Some of the blog posts have died. General details are linked from footnotes in http://www.yjil.org/docs/pub/39-1-comment-randolph-the-revolutionary-spirit-in-egypt.pdf http://www.yjil.org/docs/pub/39-1-comment-randolph-the-revol... One of the moderator series is at: https://www.google.com/moderator/?hl=ar#15/e=581e0&t=581e0.40&f=581e0.6a1891 https://www.google.com/moderator/?hl=ar#15/e=581e0&t=581e0.4... Note that moderator is not only available in a ton of languages, it can do auto-translation between all language pairs google translate supports.