Google Now Shares “Comprehensive” Link Data - So They Say

According to a post today on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, they have extended their “support for querying links to your site to much beyond the link: operator you might have used in the past. Now you can use webmaster tools to view a much larger sample of links to pages on your site that we found on the web. Unlike the link: operator, this data is much more comprehensive and can be classified, filtered, and downloaded.”

[NOTE: The "Links" tab does not seem to be available in all accounts at this time]

Log into your Google Webmaster Tools account and play around. You can now see all links into your site, filter by internal or external, or drill down to see links into a particular page of your website.

I have not had time to get into the nitty-gritty much, but it seems to be much better than the linkdomain: or link: command. How close is it to the link results using Yahoo Site Explorer? I don’t know yet, but will certainly be finding out…