The past week in the search engine business has spurred all kinds of lively discussions in forums across the web. Here is a collection of just a few:

Link building - Search Engine Watch
MySpace Business Profiles - WebPro World
Comment Tags - Small Business Brief

Other worthwhile discussion sites:

- Google's Search Engine Optimization Forum. A more active, but more general Google group for SEO issues is Internet Search Engine and the SEO Experts forums.
- SEO Best Practices Forum - iHelpYou

Web developers want to maintain current web compliance standards and make websites more user-oriented in the future, according to the largest ever survey of web developers.

Two web content companies, Ektron and SitePoint, surveyed some 5,000 web developers (which includes developers who are not necessarily full-time, full throttle coders) with the intent to get feedback on best practices, technology trends and web compliance standards that are widely accepted in the profession.

Any customer or company planning to improve their search ranking, should ask important questions of whoever they hire to do their SEO work.

Internet Explorer has enjoyed a long period of the dominant browser. Now find out how they hope IE7 will convert users to using IE as their default search engine.

Google has launchd the Website Optimizer for AdWords customers.

There is a demo that customers are encouraged to test; user documentation and a checklist and sample reports.