Quick explanation on google spidering?

[rfung]

I'm trying to understand how google spiders:

I have a site that was spidered. Okay.

Then I changed the title.

Now when I do a link:www.mysite.com, I see the results, with the top one being with the current title, but all the other links are with the old title. What's the deal? was the spider stopped, cached?
Am I to assume that since the results now reflect my newest title, that indeed my site was spidered? why wouldnt i see more pages listed?

Question 2:

when I type link:www.mysite.com i get 7 results. When I type mysite, I get more results. *all* of the results are backlinks to my site(correctly so). Why does site:www.mysite.com doesn't return the same results as just typing 'mysite'?

[ThomasB]

GoogleBot has no spider patterns that are predictable imho.

If you have access to your logfiles you can simply see which sites have already been spidered. You can expect the spidered sites to be in Google after 1-30 days.

"link:site.com" just shows baclinks from sites with a PR of 4 and higher. What do you mean by "When I type mysite"? If you'd like to see (almost) all backlinks, I'd suggest you using AllTheWeb.

[rfung]

say my website is called 'smashedpotatoes' and I type that in, it will show all the sites that contain 'smashedpotatoes' (which happen to be sites I've got backlinks from.)

I went to alltheweb and typed link:www.mysite.com - the results are different (and less) than the ones shown for google...

anyways,..