I looked at the results and the details of these two searches and they seem to be searching visible text (not links). So, I'm not sure what it's a count of...
Has anybody tried comparing the results of these commands with the info that google is providing to webmasters under the sitemap info?
link:
www.time4learning.com produces this result:
Results 1 - 10 of about 9,650 for site:
www.time4learning.com.
link:
www.time4learning.com produces this result:
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