Remember the number Google shows is so low compared to Yahoo, that is usually not hard to filter out your own URLs, especially since most are indented.

It’s also important to note that this low number Google reports to the public is of questionable value.

Personally, right now I’m skeptical that the number of links Google shows the public is of any value at all.

It’s generally believed that they are not showing all of the links that they are really “counting” and they are really not “counting” all of the links that they are showing in that public link: search anyway.

Here are two posts that might interest you:

Google’s link tab inside Webmaster tools
http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/archives/335

Determining the value of a link
http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/archives/408

Is there a way to run this Google search to exclude the non “yourdomain.com” links?

The similar tool on Yahoo has that feature — I did not readily see that feature with Google.

Thanks!