This week, Google held a free-for-all question and answer session with the press, over lunch, at their Zeitgeist event in Phoenix, AZ. The topics coursed through the entire search industry and especially focused on Google’s current activities and where they expected to go in the future. Particularly interesting to us are some of the highlights that we got from the press lunch: Google’s activities in regards to net neutrality, how rolling out Google Instant is going for them, and what’s going on with Google Android.

We’ve already covered a little bit of Google’s expectations here on SiliconANGLE in the article Anything You Can Do, Google Does Better dealing with Android and Google’s social network aspirations, but let’s dive in a little deeper.

Net Neutrality—at the meeting, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt says that most people, and reporting, on the recent wireless talks have generated misunderstandings. This is a big deal in the information economy today. He says that if they get wired net neutrality that will be excellent as wired networks don’t compete very much creating logjams for innovation; however, wireless technologies and networks are hypercompetitive.

Google Instant—Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP Product Management, mentioned that Google Instant has been a huge hit with mostly glowing feedback. They are keeping it restrained to google.com only for right now, but it seems to be building and working extremely well for the community. He foresees it as a powerful innovation that will help people search a lot faster and will probably draw more people out to attempt more exotic and esoteric searches.

Google Android—both Rosenberg and Schmidt say that they’re happy to compete with iPhone. The presence of another large smartphone technology in the marketplace gives them someone to test themselves against and a reason to constantly innovate. Here, Schmidt was quick to mention that the media sees Android vs. iPhone as an open vs. closed system competition. New version releases for the Android UI were also mentioned, allowing manufacturers to add their own layer to customize the devices. Rosenberg tells us to expect great things from Android in the upcoming quarters.