I was surprised to see that my site had only 4 backlinks on google while I know I have a lot more out there some with an ok PR, some not the site in question is rudate.com the query used to check backlinks was "link:rudate.com". If I search for "rudate.com" I have hundreds of external pages indexed. Anyone knows why that is?
Google only shows a fraction of back links- I think the common thought is that they dont want to give away all the details of what goes into determining a website's rank or PR. General rule of thumb, MSN and Yahoo are more accurate. Take a look at the tool @ www.uptimebot.com and you should get an idea of what the differences are.
Scottfish - thanks for the tool - checked it out and my site does not even pull back any backlink info on google - (i do know however that they say I have got about 22) against a figure in yahoo of 734? - google never ceases to amaze me