Quite a storm of debate has erupted over a new service called InLinks – essentially a paid text link service that allegedly makes it hard for Google (and other search engines) to detect them. And mouths of  Internet marketers begin to salivate.

People noticed discrepancies in Yahoo Site Explorer’s inlinks counts, which Yahoo has been working to fix.

Logged in to Site Explorer? Logged out? Those inlink counts looked different because they were, according to Yahoo Search.