[teyc]

Rand does. He sells a web crawler service that does the same thing as Google's "link:" operator before Google closed it off.

[underdown]

Open site explorer is not a time machine. It's a snapshot of links TODAY. Your assertion is flatly false.

[InfinityX0]

Google is a snapshot of links TODAY. Links that no longer almost certainly pass no value. Rand is wrong about a few of the domains on the list, as they have done shady SEO in the past. Also, OSE.org is not a fluid list - it only crawls a sliver of the web, and their index is not nearly as comprehensive as Google's. It was updated a week or so ago, and before that, had not been updated for a month and a half.

[teyc]

Was Google's link: operator caching old expired links?

[chopsueyar]

Have you used it or are you talking out of your hind-quarters?

[teyc]

I'm not a customer.

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