Here’s a roundup of today’s live blogging and coverage of SES New York 2011. Click to read the rest of this post…

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

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

I had about 20 minutes with Yahoo’s Shashi Seth after the press conference to discuss a range of things related to the Search Direct announcement. First, he confirmed that Search Direct entirely replaces Yahoo’s Search Assist

Yahoo rolled out Yahoo Search Direct today, its rival to Google Instant. Yahoo says that its service is focused on providing actual answers, while Google’s is focused on bringing back links. True

Posted by Dr. Pete I came across a great analogy over at Zen Habits , and it’s got me rethinking how I view social media: If my personal website is my digital home, then my social networking profiles on Facebook and Twitter, etc

Google’s recent Panda algorithm update affected many Web sites. History is repeating itself again.

Yahoo CTO Blake Irving introduced Yahoo’s challenge to Google Instant, “Search Direct,” at a press event today at the offices of Yahoo’s PR agency. (See Danny’s head to head comparison of Yahoo and Google Instant.) Before diving into the news, Irving first reviewed… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video named How should I handle localized content?

To promote its Search Manager service (powered by Clickable) American Express has released small business (SMB) survey data about search and social media marketing.