Cool ! My site has had only 2 links listed on google for months & months, now I have 8 listed. Not even close to the 173 that Altavista shows but an improvement.
Publicly viewable Backlinks do not change daily in google, they are exported every once in a while just like pagerank, tho it does not generally take 3 months.
Technically this is true... however, if a page linking to you (one of the ones G has listed, anyways) drops from the index, then it will change your results slightly. Same with if it comes back. This is most noticeable if you use a multi-dc checker, then look at the links on each dc manually. -Michael