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A Google software engineer, Eran Gabber [bell-labs.com] exposed that there is an internal ethics committee in Google that's comprised of Google employees interested in ethics, during a closed lecture in Tel Aviv university.
"We change the PageRank when we find spammers that abuse it, but we don't change it much. There's an internal ethics committee within Google. We don't change the algorithms to penalize a specific company".
On a question of who makes the members of the ethics committee, he initially murmured, but then gave up and said that "This is an internal thing, internally there are people who take interest in ethics. There is a lot of Google employees to whom the issue of ethics is very important.".
When it turned out that the person who posed the questions was a journalist, Gabber refused to talk on the grounds that he is not prohibited to be interviewed.
I hope this will be interesting for everybody
The things were said during a closed lecture for second degree computer science students. The purpose of the lecture is to recruit students for Google's yearly project, under which about 100 students from all parts of the world work for Google for about 3 months.
We don't change the algorithms to penalize a specific company...
GG has been pretty straightforward in stating that G prefers algorithmic (automated) solutions to spam over an individual banning.
[news.bbc.co.uk...]
It's reported that Google, whose motto is Do No Evil, has an ethics committee to debate its impact on the world - something that will doubtless grow as the company floats. So what sort of things might it discuss?
That sounds like the Babbelfish translation, not a "literal" translation
