Google invites 400 to 'off the record' event

CNET News.com: "Google is planning a partner forum for about 400 people, including bloggers and journalists from major media outlets, and is prohibiting participants from writing about it, according to a search engine industry expert.
Dubbed 'Zeitgeist '05: The Google Partner Forum,' the event is 'the first 'customer innovation conference' Google said it has ever held,' wrote Danny Sullivan in his Search Engine Watch blog from Friday.
The event is scheduled for Oct. 25-27 at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, Sullivan said. The link to Google's posting about the event now requires a username and password for access.
In his blog, Sullivan cited the following passage, which he said is in the frequently-asked-questions section of the event Web site: 'All speeches and discussions at Zeitgeist are off the record. To ensure that our presenters and attendees can speak openly, no press coverage or blogging is permitted.'
Speakers on the agenda, Sullivan wrote, include Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel, MSN Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi, InterActive Corp's Chief Executive Barry Diller and Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble. "