&gt; <i>but it sure is a nice interface for building up a network of backlinks.</i><p>The web isn&#x27;t static, backlinks tend to disappear. So a one-time effort isn&#x27;t useful, especially if it further complicates already bloated browsers and enables DDoS techniques.<p>A useful way of collecting backlinks at any point in time would be through search engines that snapshot all the visible web regularly with timestamps. It&#x27;s too bad they don&#x27;t offer such services anymore.