I wrote some scripts to stalk all the official Google blogs, Twitter hashes, and G+ tags and call me instantly so I could leap into action. I thought they were

I wrote some scripts to stalk all the official Google blogs, Twitter hashes, and G+ tags and call me instantly so I could leap into action. I thought they were going to make it a surprise you know, reward the most crazed followers by just declaring it registration time so the camper hitting F5 don't win. No such thing. It was that way the year before too. There is really no reason for them to change it. There are hundreds of thousands of people interested and a few seats. They'll sell out and be the dominant search engine regardless. Sadly that leaves it more luck of the draw than anything else.