--- title: "Missed the Google lecture, but here's a short summary" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/20/missed-the-google-lecture-but-heres-a-short-summary.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/20/missed-the-google-lecture-but-heres-a-short-summary.html" published: "2004-05-20T21:45:00" updated: "2004-05-20T21:45:00" tags: ["Cool Articles"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I didn't get to go to the Google lecture like I wanted to, but I hear it was really good! here's a blurb from the Google Blog about this lecture: Ido Kenan, NRG Maariv has filed a story about Google's ethics committee .…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Missed the Google lecture, but here's a short summary By Roy Osherove May 20, 2004 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles) **Historical article** · Originally published May 20, 2004; technical details may be outdated. I didn't get to go to the [Google lecture](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/05/10/128812.aspx) like I wanted to, but I hear it was really good! here's a blurb from the [Google Blog](http://google.blogspace.com/archives/001242) about this lecture: _Ido Kenan, NRG Maariv has filed_ [_a story about Google's ethics committee_](http://www.maariv.co.il/channels/13/ART/714/607.html)_. He sent us this translation:_ _Google has an ethics committee for decisions on changes to their algorithms. The committee is comprised of Google workers "who are concerned about ethics", said Dr. Eran Gabber, a software engineer with Google, at a lecture yesterday (Monday) at the Tel Aviv University._ _Dr. Gabber came to Israel to recruit Computer Science students for an annual Google project, where 100 students from around the world are invited to work at Google for a 12-week period during the summer._ _Dr. Gabber said: "We change Pagerank when we find that spammers are abusing it, but we don't change it often. There's an internal ethics committee in Google. Internally, there are people who are concerned about ethics. In Google, there are a lot of people who find ethics important"._ _There are photos at_ [_the original article_](http://www.maariv.co.il/channels/13/ART/714/607.html) _(in Hebrew). Thanks again to Ido Kenan, NRG Maariv for this story._ Geez, just like the news paper to focus on the “non geeky” stuff. I wish they had taped it somewhere so we could see it. 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