Just what does the link:mysite.com Google query do? Returning odd results for me...

[domino66]

This makes no sense to me: when I run the following Google search for my site: link:jobstr.com
it returns only 6 results. WHY? There are dozens, if not hundreds of links to jobstr.com online, and they're on sites that I'm sure that Google has crawled/indexed. Just as an example, search for site:.edu "jobstr.com" and it returns 10 linkbacks on .edu sites. Moreover, my Analytics and WMT accounts show hundreds of live inbound links.

So what am I not understanding here? I thought that running the link:jobstr.com was essentially telling Google "show me all of the websites where people are linking to my site"...but that can't be right if it's only returning 6 results. So just what IS that query then?

[Jocelyn]

Old command that was replaced with the WMT so it doesn't give away the list of links to your site to your competitors.