msn=link:www . sitename . com yahoo=link:http ://www . sitename . com without the extra spaces i put in there
For both MSN and Yahoo: linkdomain:www.domain.com for links to site link:http://www.domain.com for links to a page
Also take a look here, http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/default.htm It graphs your results over time.
You can use free tools available online like http://www.linkpopularity.com/ to check your link popularity. It will show links from Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Yes the above method is popularly true. But guys do you know they also give you result of simple text to your site with link as the text but no real link? I have seen this several times. But unless we find out a real true result this is the best available method.
Tools are good if you need an overall view of the backlinks but they do not provide an option to exclude sites from the search
The link popularity tool can also be downloaded and installed on your computer. This allows you to add multiple websites to the list and check their link popularity at the same time. This comes in handy when you have to compare your websites link popularity with other competitor websites. Plus its free !