I was honored to be one of about 15 people personally invited to attend the 2009 Google SEM Council on Monday. The purpose of the summit was for Google to chat openly about several key updates on their end and to get the honest feedback from its top agencies. I can’t say much about the content of the summit as we all had to sign a confidentiality agreement upon entering the complex. However, I can say…

Many well respected Googlers made appearances including President Tim Armstrong and Avinash Kaushik (he writes my favorite blog on web analytics). The highlight of the summit occurred when Eric Schmidt, CEO, visited the summit as the grand finale. He made a few general comments and seemed very confident in Google’s future. Note that he uses a BlackBerry, which is also my smartphone of choice.