Below is live coverage of the User Generated SEO panel from the SES San Francisco 2011 conference. This coverage is provided by Shanon Woodruff at RankSmart. Disclaimer: The coverage is brought to you in real time…

In May, when Eli Parser first gave his TED talk about what he called the “filter bubble,” many technology analysts started talking about the subject – yours truly included . The points raised by Parser were intriguing: Was it possible the automatic personalization of technology, including search, were substantially lowering our chances of seeing contradicting viewpoints? A recent experiment contradicts that idea; it seems Google’s filter bubble can burst pretty easily.

Below is live coverage of the Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues panel from the SES San Francisco 2011 conference.

Google and Facebook are at it yet again.

Below is live coverage of the Automating Social Media: Creating & Distributing the Message panel from the SES San Francisco 2011 conference. This coverage is provided by Shanon Woodruff at RankSmart. Disclaimer: The coverage is brought to you in real time..

DuckDuckGo, the one-full-time-employee search engine that has somewhat aggressively challenged Google on privacy issues, picked up a nice pat-on-the-back this week: It made a TIME magazine list of the 50 Best Websites of 2011. In its short profile, the magazine calls DuckDuckGo “one of the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Posted by Cyrus Shepard Was SEOmoz affected by Google’s Panda Updates? It depends how you look at it.

The only session I’m liveblogging day one of SES San Francisco conference is this one, “Meaningful SEO Metrics: Going Beyond the Numbers” so the pressure is on the awesome panel including: Todd Friesen , Ray “Catfish” Comstock , Rob Garner and moderation duties handled by Richard Zwicky.

Google has made two notable changes to Analytics: Session IDs are now calculated somewhat differently and referrals from Google Image Search now count as search traffic. The New Definition of a Session To get an accurate idea of how a site vis…

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