In a recent survey CNET asked AOL, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo about their privacy policies and behavioral targeting. In some cases they asked follow-up questions for clarification.

Here are the results:

At SES Latino 2007 there was, as you might expect, a focus on the search market as it pertains to Central and South America; representatives from both Google and Yahoo see a huge potential for growth in the region.

Windows Live is best known as a collection of end-user offerings – like Messenger, Spaces, Search, Hotmail and a whole bunch more.  It’s also in the process of evolving into a platform.  Koji Kato and Danny Thorpe, from the Windows Live platform team, discuss with Catherine Heller a Windows Live Technical Evangelist on Channel 9 their views on internet software and what it means to “componentize” Windows Live.

First, Google comes out about their video fingerprinting tool (we mentioned it earlier this week)

(via Barry Schwartz at SEL)

We’ve already provided an in-depth overview of the SEO meet SMM session, but we’ve still got lots of great video to share with you. In this clip, SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin reveals his top 3 social networking sites for traffic and link generation.

SE Round Table’s Tamar Weinberg provides an in-depth analysis of the first day’s events at the 2007 Search Marketing Expo in Seattle.

Just got this fantastic note from Wayne Thompson, who is the director of research at Technology Evaluation. Wayne was one of the 20+ participants at the San Francisco stop of the Social Media and CRM 2.0 workshop series.

Static online reprints of newspaper and magazine articles is so ten years ago. Interactivity and networking are the big factors now, as people want to leave their mark in comments on the stories of today.

I was really taken aback today when I presented at Search Engine Strategies today in New York. I remember the first one I attended back in 2001 in Boston—there were about 300 people there, I recall.

Major search engines Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo jointly announced at SES New York their support of a new feature that makes sitemaps more valuable to webmasters.

A coworker asked me this so I thought I’d whip up a quick example.

A few months ago I blogged (How ColdFusion can save your business) about how you can use the onSessionEnd feature of Application.cfc to track the success of your ecommerce site.

This was an open discussion session where users submitted their sites to get the Google ad copy critiqued and the landing page looked over for quality and usability.

This session covered things from what a small business owner should be paying attention to, what you shouldn’t, and gave ideas, tips an information for the small business owner.

The idea that your site has to be static, or look static, to do well in search engines is getting to be a thing of the past.