however, did you notice this? doing these in google yields different results
link:
http://www.mobile9.com/link:http://www.mobile9.com/
link:www.mobile9.com/
weird isn't it?
Yeah, I found about that. That's why it's important to keep your links always consistant. Don't link to your site by using
www.yoursite.com once and then yoursite.com the next time. Google looks at this as links to two different sites, and it will cause your PR to be split in half.
btw, do you know why va-google is showing different backlinks compared to google.com?
I am not sure but I got the link somewhere after reading that it has updated backlinks for sites. It might be the page ranks site or server that Google uses? I am not sure but it does the job, hehe.

If you didn't know there is also www2.google.com and www3.google.com for updates to your site. Those sites show that Google has before it will show up on the main Google page. www2.google.com usually shows how Google crawled your site and what you should expect the next time google.com updates its listings.[/quote]