{"id":80,"date":"2004-11-19T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/google-guys-take-on-link-command-returning-random-backlinks-in-google\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T06:26:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:26:59","slug":"google-guys-take-on-link-command-returning-random-backlinks-in-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/google-guys-take-on-link-command-returning-random-backlinks-in-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Guy’s take on link: command returning random backlinks in google,"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Guy’s take on the useless backlink command, Here is a small snippet taken from the original posting by him in search engine watch forums<\/p>\n

Google doesn’t return all backlinks in response to a link: command. In the ancient days, it was because there was a finite amount of storage space on the machines that served link: requests. So we only kept the backlinks for the top N pages. Later as we moved to a different indexing system, we kept backlinks for the top M% of pages. This was helpful for important pages, but it meant that Mom and Pop sites with lower PageRank wouldn’t have as good a chance to see their backlinks.<\/p>\n

source: forums.searchenginewatch.com\/showthread.php?t=2423&page=2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Guy’s take on the useless backlink command, Here is a small snippet taken from the original posting by him in search engine watch forums Google doesn’t return all backlinks in response to a link: command. In the ancient days, it was because there was a finite amount of storage space on the machines that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}