Pilgrim’s Picks for August 14

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by Andy Beal

Today’s edition of Pilgrim’s Picks comes via a Mac Mini. No, I haven’t made the switch to a Mac yet, but giving it a test run.

Techdirt reports that a substitute judge lost his position when it was discovered his MySpace profile listed personal interests as “Breaking my foot off in a prosecutor’s ass … and improving my ability to break my foot off in a prosecutor’s ass.”
Business Weeks looks at the difficulty start-ups have in securing a memorable domain name.
Do social networks make for good IPOs? Classmates.com is about to test the waters with a $125M IPO–you can bet Facebook is watching the outcome closely.
Google and Microsoft want to make it easier for you to control your health information–and line their pockets at the same time.
TechCrunch points out that Alexa’s rankings are officially crap. They say YouTube is more visited than Google!
Google’s Matt Cutts tells us that you can now request Google review your site for malware.

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» Exploiting webmaster vanity in search engine marketing Says:

August 15th, 2007 at 7:28 am

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SEO forums Says:

September 17th, 2008 at 10:57 am

I agree with techcrucnh……alexa rankings are really crap…does not take into account all net users but only those using it’s toolbar.

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