Google has introduced a new tool, called Moderator, which is designed for submitting and voting on the questions related to Google’s tech talks. The tool allows anyone to submit a question, and then permits other people to vote on the quality of the question.

According to Google’s Matt Cutts, this tool was called Dory internally, and is used by the Google employees during “tech talks or company-wide meetings”.

Within Google Moderator, anyone can create a specific topic for questions to be asked in. These topics are called series; one such series is “Ask a Google engineer,” and provided its authentic, you can ask a question to Google employees like Adam Lasnik, Matt Cutts, Jeff Dean, Andrew Morton and others.

Other series currently available are “Ask a world leader” (hypothetical, I suppose), “Suggest an Android Application”, and “U.S. Presidential Debates 2008”.

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