Why cant google do this?

I check BL external to my domain and yahoo and MSN do great and show a decent number but google cant do it and finds none.

I know google shows BL differently but this is a joke of none.

Is this a broken google or a regular problem and if it were showing a result I would guess my SERPS would change, right?

 

It's not a matter of 'can they do it' but 'do they want to do it'. Looks ot me like they are protecting valuable IP by not giving full access to the core of their algorithms.

 

plz shed bit more light on this

 

Centuries ago... well more like before the Florida update... google was showing all backlinks that was PR4 or more. Since this was excellent for us guys to find the good links, they changed that and show less links, more internal links, and the external are often low PR or cheaper pages.

Why would google give us a tool to find the competition's good links and a way to go and get the same ones for yourself to better beat them in the serps...

 

Thats a very good point, I had not thought of it like that before

 

Yes, thats a good point.

 

hmm but Yahoo! has already one very nice tool at Yahoo! Site Explorer.

 

Checked the tool. Good one. Thanks for sharing.

 

Good point...I never thought of it like that before

 

It's the case, Google does not like piece of cake strategies for webmasters by giving out all the info of all the links to a website.

 

Nice question, but all of us believe that it is very rare for Google to view more BLs than other search engines.

 

Yea but site explorer doesn't show a links' pagerank..

 

backlinkwatch.com is the tool for that, thanks to Mong

 

I just use Yahoo now to do backlink analysis, definately the easiest way to check against competitors also using the query:

linkdomain:www.your-competitor.com -site:www.your-competitor

 

Yahoo tend's to show the juicier ones at the top of the list.