Cape Cod SEO has a great post about Evaluating Inbound Link Results in Search Engines. The article explains using the link: option in the search engines to find and count inbound links to your website. The also explain the differents results from different search engines.
I would call this technique the "sheeple method" as it is what everyone else is doing. So many infact that the Cape Cod SEO blog says that MSN search disabled it completly and Google doesn't provide accurate or complete results. What's the point?
