🪦 Google Moderator · 6 years
Google Moderator was a service that used crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions, and ideas. Launched September 1, 2008; shut down June 30, 2015 — it lived 6 years. One of 14 Google products killed in 2015. Google Moderator was a Google service that used crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas. It was launched on September 25, 2008 and shut down on June 30, 2015. The service allowed the management of feedback from a large number of people, who could vote for questions they thought should be posed from a pool of questions submitted by others or submit their own to be asked and voted on. The service aimed to ensure that every question was considered, let the audience see others' questions, and helped the moderator of a team or event address the questions that the audience most cared about. The service was internally nicknamed Dory at Google, a reference to "the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo". Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).