No funny videos for today’s Picks. Just good, wholesome internet marketing news. In fact, did you know that consuming one serving of Pilgrim’s Picks daily will make you, well, you know…more regular?

• Google News languishes in the #8 spot of most visited online news sites. Still, Marissa Mayer suggests the company still gets a lot of value from the service.
• The revamped Yoono enters public beta today. The company has raised $4M in funding and hopes to gain users of its social media sidebar for Firefox.
• If ever I decide its a good time to seek a real SEO job, I’ll pay attention to the LinkedIn advice offered by recruiter Josh Gampel.
• Are you seeing x-rated images in your supposedly filtered Google Image search results. You can now report those offending pics.

Either I’m really running high on the productivity scale or it’s a really slow news day. Knowing me, it ain’t my productivity. So here are the select few stories that weren’t quite worth a post, but are worth a look:

Revaluing Social Networks: TechCrunch looks at another way to assign valuations to social networks. He’s calculated the average Internet ad spend per user in each country, then multiplied that out by the number of users for each social network in each country (where data is available, of course).

Who comes out on top? MySpace, of course, though their lead over Facebook in dollar terms depends on which recent deal in social networking you base the index on. And the country with the highest ad spend per user? The UK ($213), followed by Australia ($148) and Denmark ($144) (then the US with $132).

Some Mondays just seem to go like this:

For the rest of us, we take it in our stride and read today’s Picks:

• Before the "Google Trends kills [insert web intelligence firm here]" discussions get out of hand, it’s worth noting that the new web site traffic data from Google is pretty inaccurate.
• There’s an influx of SEO advice from dear old Google. Some of it basic (but good) and some of it needing some additional translation from Rand Fishkin.
• Nokia has acquired Germany based Plazes, a location based social network.
• Search Engine Watch has compiled a list of 24 SEM job boards. Of course, our internet marketing job board is all you need.