Google's annual stockholder's meeting is about to begin. It's only a day after Press Day 2006, where all kinds of new Google services and products were announced. We're as anxious as you are to hear what Google's been up to behind closed doors (shareholders definitely want to know) and how those little nuggets are affecting and will be affecting Google's strategy against a raft of competitors. It still has the lead on many things now, but consistency and longevity are the keys to growing long-term shareholder value, aren't they?

With that said, here we go! All times below are in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)...

2:00 p.m. Here we are on the webcast -- let's see if it actually starts on time

2:02 p.m. SG Sarah Gilbert here, joining in to tag-team the liveblogging! Double the insight, double the fingers, double the fun.

2:06 p.m. Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, is introing some of the Google top brass, including a nice intro for Sergey and Larry (we'll leave last names out).

2:09 p.m. David Drummond, Google's top legal counsel, is going through the normal quorum procedures as he talks about the election of directors. Intel CEO Otelinni is in there with some verbal nuance from David. Nice.