It's always like that. I think Google only counts the best of the best as a backlink. They probably leave junk links like the ones in sigs and profiles out of their number.
If you site have 100 links from forums.digitalpoint.com google will count it one cause it is one site, but yahoo will count it 100.
Yahoo will count on every link while Google only on quality site links. I like Yahoo because it updates backlinks much faster than Google.
I agree with you yahoo backlinks updates much faster than google. Google is strict in evaluating the quality of links.
Google only display quality links but if you have an account in google webmaster tool you can see many backlinks in google.
I've never understood this. Seems like Google doesn't want to reveal everything, perhaps in hopes of making it harder to game their results.
Google and Yahoo crawlers view different pages. Yahoo may have some indexed sites that Google has left in the "dark web" and thus will show more backlinks.
they might wanna make your site look good this way will encourage people to use their services more. mainly just they dont want to show the same or similar no. with google so they try to make a different. they might thought that ok google count only the urls, but i will count them all!
i dunno...i checked the links back to my site on google sitemap and many of them weirdly come from MFA porn sites...
Google is not some pristine goddess who does no wrong! Using their webmaster tools, I have seen all kinds of manufactured links listed. These are links only created for the purpose of increasing link count.