Google is holding a conference called Zeitgeist ’05 from October 25th through the 27th. 400 people have been invited to attend. Even though several of the attendees are bloggers or journalists, Google has forbidden them from writing (via Scripting News) about the conference.
Trying to keep what’s said at the conference from showing up in print will be akin to herding cats. Bloggers and journalists have lots of friends who are also bloggers and journalists. Eventually, someone is going to let something slip. And once it finds its way to Technorati, you can forget about containing it.
Between actions like this, their unwillingness to participate in the developer community, their lack of cross-platform apps (such as Talk and Video Viewer), and poorly-executed apps, I’m thinking that Google is turning into another Microsoft. So today I deleted my Google keymark. It’s going to take a while to get used to typing “y” to search in Firefox.
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Everybody is turning into another Microsoft. It’s the new trend. :-)
As for keeping 400 media attendees quiet about the happenings at this conference, all I can say is…
…THIS. :-)