Since sites like blockedpr.com boasted about being able to detect “Non-PR passing sites” via the backlink check tool of Google ("link:domain") – Google did what was obvious to do…

i can hear them:

There was at least one major backlink update in July – and since then webmasters go crazy about the link:domain tool…

NO NEW backlink above PR5 is typically shown in the link:domain tool that’s my observation on various sites – very often even PR3 .. 0 pages rank #1 in the backlink check… oh well..

So Google is trying to confuse webmasters so they cannot find their backlinks or their competitors' links anymore – at least not that easy…

It seems Google’s folks are entrenching themselves and burying algorithm changes deeper… and make web site optimizers mad… nothing else.

My recommendation:

use the msn search tool like linkdomain:weblog.cemper.com

to find all backlinks to that domain, not only the index… they are even faster updating their index than google…

and hey – if Google doesn't deliver proper data – folks will move on… maybe they just got too serious with their IPO ?