A Plink is a short name for a Public Link page which is a type of profile page for a business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

 on the internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

. Plinks can contain a business description, map

Map

A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes....

s and contact information.

Plinks are provided by various information services across the internet and are a growing source of smaller product rich mini website

Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

s that allow businesses to get their information out onto the web without any technical information.

Other uses

• software for the analysis of genotype/phenotype data: http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/