Links, Links, Links

Ok, so I've taken this post from another blog but I thought it might be interesting!

Have you ever wondered how some sites get so many links? Clearly sites such as Google deserve to have millions of links but I decided to see which sites and sub pages were building links into the millions.

• 150 million links to http://www.statcounter.com/
• 24.8 million links to http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• 24 million links to http://wordpress.com
• 22 million links to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
• 14 million links links to http://www.technorati.com
• 13.7 million links to http://www.moneyexpert.com/Compare-Loans.aspx
• 7.5 million links to http://www.moneyweb.co.uk/products/mortgages/mcapital.html
• 5.5 million links to http://threestore.three.co.uk/
• 5.5 million links to http://www.microsoft.com/
• 4.8 million links to http://www.apple.com/
• 4 million links links to http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/
• 3 million links links to http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/
• 2 million links to http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/popularity-contest
• 1.3 million links to http://photomatt.net

We think this is quite a strange list apart from a few. Where are the media web sites such as CNN or BBC? I think that this goes to show that there are non-ethical techniques at large in creating links from "spammy" web sites.

I wonder how long it would take for the search engines to suss this out - that is if it is possible of course!