For several years now, Google has disabled its link search. Actually, what it's done is worse, providing mis and dis-information, causing thousands of search marketing professionals to receive questions every day on why "Google only knows about 10 of my links." However, I was thrilled today to find that their link search works flawlessly in their blog search engine.

For example:

• SEOmoz - 4,443 links
• Joe Morin - 49 links
• Boing Boing - 84,914 links
• Kineda - 51 links
• SFGate - 186,846 links 
• ESPN - 3,669 links

When I compare it Technorati, it's obvious that Google still has a long way to go in terms of growing their blog index:

• SEOmoz - 18,378 links
• Joe Morin - 765 links
• Boing Boing - 135,730 links
• Kineda - 2,098 links
• SFGate -  224,025 links
• ESPN - 5,900 links

I'm not sure why Google is offering solid link data here and spoofing it in the normal search, but I'll take it! One more metric to add to the toolbox.

p.s. For an update, see this post on the Google Link Command.