Marval - 10:34 am on Oct 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

The important part of this that theitboy referred to here...Google offers the "what pages link to this page" as part of it's advanced search page. This is designed for the surfer, not the WMs out there that are trying to improve their pages.
Why would Google not want to show all of the results to the surfer on an advanced search (forget about it being a tool we use for a minute) - probably the same reason that they have chosen to only show 50 mill results for a common search term when over the last few years the same word had anywhere from 150-230 mill results...they are trying to improve the search results using algorithms - and this doesnt usually have anything to do with the quality of the experience that someone trying to rank higher with web pages gets from their tools.