Number of Links: Google vs. Yahoo

[eclancy]

I'm curious why Google doesn't recognize all my links.

When I go to Google and type: link:www.example.com it returns 4 links to our site. (Two of them are internal links)

When I go to Yahoo and type: link:www.example.com it returns 53 links to our site. (Several of these are internal links)

Also, I have a list of sites I've identified who link to us, and I have 29 such inbound links, few of which either Google or Yahoo recognize.

If these sites that link to ours were not indexed by Google or Yahoo or didn't have a page rank I might understand, but I have links from Yellow Pages and my own web site, both of which are ranked well, yet these links don't get listed with this tool.

Any ideas? Thanks, Elisa

[edited by: martinibuster at 5:48 pm (utc) on Nov. 13, 2007]
[edit reason] No URLs. Please use Example.com. [/edit]

[longen]

The Yahoo total is more representative, as Google does not display most of the links which a site has aquired.

[martinibuster]

Google only shows a sample of links. For more information about how Google works, please post the question on the Google Search forum.

Thanks.