TV is changing for better or worse. And perhaps sensing that their control over audiences and distribution is further slipping away and that their expensive programming is being reduced to mere “content,” the major broadcast networks are blocking access from Google TV. According to a story this afternoon in the Wall Street Journal: Full-length episodes of *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google, was the keynote speaker this morning at SES Chicago 2010 .

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Yes, it’s true, your baby is damn ugly (as Tim Ash would point out). It’s tough to come to that realization for many webmasters, but it’s harder for most to accept that despite how broken your website is, there are several Google-owned and operated websites that are probably just as broken. Not to worry, because Google also does their best to love you and your ugly baby by offering Google Webmaster Tools to you for free (or, at no cost to you).

Posted by Aaron Wheeler Everyone loves metrics! Even more so, everyone loves taking action! After all, that’s why we have Action Man , international man of…. well, action.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Below is live coverage of the Social Goes Local from the SES Chicago conference. This coverage is provided by Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp

Below is live coverage of the Channel Surfing: Measuring Profit and ROI Across Channels from the SES Chicago conference.

Move over PageRank and meet Webmaster Happiness Rank. That’s another metric that Google maintains, it turns out.

Below is live coverage of the Digital Asset Optimization from the SES Chicago conference. This coverage is provided by Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp & Avi Wilensky of Promediacorp. We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time..