Dear Google,

I used to Love your webmaster tools. You have lots of great features, like site map configuration, crawler diagnostics and top search queries and positions. But why must you tease us by pretending to report on incoming links?

Sure, you call it a "sampling" and carefully word your descriptions with phrases like "links we have available to show you."

If "Links to your site" is a sampling, and the basis isn't known or consistent, then what is the intended use of the report?

Case in point: Throughout 2009, Webmaster tools reports… Continue reading