Google Moderator is a new public application from Google initially created for submitting and voting questions from Google's tech talks.Taliver Heath, the engineer responsible of this 20% project at Google, describes the origin of the new tool: "we host a large number of tech talks. These talks cover a wide rage of Computer Science topics like research in machine learning and methods for ranking images based on text queries. I've enjoyed attending these tech talks, but as the number of attendees has grown over time, the question-and-answer part of the talks hasn't been able to scale".
The application turned out to be useful for other things, like the company's meetings, and Google decided to launch it publicly on the App Engine platform.
You can create a list of suggestions for any service and anyone can add new suggestions or vote on the existing ideas. The most popular ideas are displayed at the top, but Google Moderator also lists random suggestions to make them more visible.
