Dominic and Links?

Why did more than half of links drop?

[hightraffic10]

I'm I jumping the gun or will links be kicked back in? I have shuffled through the hundreds of update threads but this one is puzzling. If they dont plan to return why did they get dropped?

[vitaplease]

Two things:

1. Google actually shows the number of backlinks they report (and not the double quantity as in the past). There is a thread and some posts on that.

2. Googleguy says more backlinks will/can/could be added on the fly (for example which were collected during the last deepcrawl) as we continue through the next days.