Gambit - 7:58 pm on Jan 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

Two months ago, Google showed my main site as having 9,200 sites linking to it. Now, it shows just 1,500 sites linking to it plus I dropped from PR8 to a PR7.

Alltheweb still shows 50,000+ sites linking to me.

Maybe Google has just reduced the total number of sites and/or pages it crawls?

My sites are over 6 years old. They are legitimate, non-commercial, educational sites. All with high content and very little outbound links. The type of sites most search engines love.

I thought it might have just been Google is penalizing me in favor of more commercial sites, since all of this happened in the last two months, with Google under a little bit of pressure from Yahoo and MSN who are researching their own search engines.

But if this is happening to commercial sites too, I would love to hear more thoughts on the matter.