Display of Backlinks.....

Randomly placed, chronologically or how?

[johnser]

When you do link:www.domain.com, most of the links to the site (of at least PR4 value) are displayed.

What criteria is used to rank these?
Its not A-Z, by date or by PR.

Any clues?
J

[AthlonInside]

Maybe they rank according to google index's site IDs. :)

[johnser]

And do we know what determines these IDs?

I would have thought it might be chronologically based on when G first sees a site but thats not it....

Just curious!
J

[madweb]

> And do we know what determines these IDs?

Perhaps the order in which they are appended to the database during the crawl.

[jady]

Madweb - that sounds like the only logical way. In looking at backlinks, the higher ranking sites do NOT come first - nor do the lowest ranking sites. I think as Google eats up the pages with the backlinks it counts the ones it "wants to".