tedster - 5:50 pm on Aug 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

I can't say I've noticed that - but I don't usually watch the Google link: operator results, since whether the numbers are large or small, they only ever list a sampling of backlinks.

From your report, it seems that Google has decided to restrict the public link: information quite a bit more than in the recent past. I'm not sure what the logic would be behind that, since the word has certainly been spreading about Google's link: results being limited. Maybe they are hoping to reduce usage even more - hard to say what their thinking is.