Why does Open Site Explorer show less inbound links than yahoo site Explorer?

[Waplington]

Hello,

We have a question regarding inbound link measurement.

We used to measure our inbound links with yahoo site explorer. Now that it's been shut down we use opensiteexplorer.org. However, Open Site Explorer only shows a fraction of inbound links compared to yahoo site explorer.

For our website www.theprintspace.co.uk yahoo site explorer measured approx. 14,000 inbound links, whereas open Site Explorer only counts approx. 3,000. This is more than 10,000 links less. For our other website www.theprintspace.de Open Site Explorer also shows 3000 links less than Yahoo. How can this be? Does Open Site Explorer count the links in a different way to Yahoo?

Please explain. It would be great if you could help us with this.

Thank you!

[AlanMosley]

OSE does not index the whole internet, but it tries to index them that count. the links you dont see are likely not good links.