Google plans to hold its "Zeitgeist '05: The Google Partner Forum" - for 400 or so people, including bloggers and journalists - but wants to keep the entire event off the record, forbidding attendees from writing about it, reports CNET, citing a post on search expert Danny Sullivan's blog. The event, scheduled for October 25-27 at Google's Mountain View headquarters, is "the first 'customer innovation conference' Google…has ever held," wrote Sullivan.
Speakers on the agenda include Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, MSN SVP Yusuf Mehdi, InterActive Corp. CEO Barry Diller and Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble.
Members of the press invited include Arthur Sulzberger, chairman and publisher of the New York Times, James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly and New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell.
