Well I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "site links" but here's a short primer on this stuff:
If you do a search on site:yourdomain.com then this will give you what is supposed to be indexed pages of your site. I say supposed to because this isn't really accurate and in fact none of the search commands relating to any of this stuff really is. This will give you an idea at least.
Now you're talking about backlinks though I presume so now let's look at the command link:yourdomain.com. With this you'll get a very very small percentage of your backlinks and the ones that get returned are of no particular noteworthiness. Back when I had hundreds of backlinks I had two, and now with thousands I have 15. These 15 aren't good links and in fact it's a small grab bag of perhaps the worst - lingerie blog and such.
Next we have the yourdomain.com site:yourdomain.com command. This is used by some of the backlink checkers out there and it at least gives you a lot of results but too many - the actual backlinks, some references to your site on the net whick aren't indexed links, or might not even be links at all, plus depending on your site name, some stuff unrelated to your site as well.
Finally we have the iGoogle tools which include an external link report. This has a bit of a lag but is the only one which actually reports actual backlinks. If you're interested in keeping track of this stuff then this is a must have. You need to sign up for the free account and put some code in your site for them to track you.
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