Well that may happen on your 9 million page results! But! that sure do not happen on sweetfunny's page search results.. I clicked on around 50 of sweetfunny page results and they're all valid.. I would and will be talking more with SF to learn more about how the real algorithm works.. This here, is what separates the men from the boys, sort of speak in a web land lingo sort of tongue.. Boulder
I don't know about you guys, but my sites results have changed at least three times in the last 24 hours. From 146k to 8k to 16k
Holy crap You are one lucky person. I bet your making a fortune from ads and all the inbound visitors.
Yesterday someone asked the same question at Cutts' blog and he said he'd look into it. Seems like an obvious bug.
Everyone knows that G's link queries are near useless anyway, so what is your point? BTW, you are wrong - without blank doesn't show any backlinks for many (when there actually are backlinks) sites, whereas the query WITH the blank will show the actual backlinks more often than not.