link: vs. links:

[clarkmurray]

Does anybody know the difference between link: and links: in Google? The Google documentation refers to link: However, I've found that links: seems to give a more accurate result.

[Joseph Morin]

On every test I just tried, links: returned only 1 or 2 results (or none at all) whereas link: would return several thousand. I tried about 10 sites.

[cuzco]

I thought links just returned pages with the word "links" + the url