Ever since Big Daddy started, getting new pages indexed has been a nightmare. I have a PR4 and PR3 sites. I use google sitemaps, I have added a link on the PR4 page for the page on the PR3 site that I want indexed. Still no luck. I'm sure everyone is as frustrated as I am with BD. I can understand they are having trouble but should it really take months to get it fixed? Google was supposed to be the best SE. Now they are really struggling. I'm surprised this hasn't reached the stock holders yet.
Google doesn't care about you and me! Google only cares about the income from their ads and it doesn't matter to Google if we get our sites indexed or not, and as long as Google makes money from their advertisers the share holders doesn't care. Why doesn't Google care about us? Because we don't bring in any money at all, at least if we are not showing Google Ads on our sites! Google could go on without adding new sites up until dooms day, OR when people get tired of finding spam sites and turn to MSN, live, Yahoo or any other SE that provides a better result.
I think it would hurt them in the long-term because as soon as the general population start seeing the issues Google has they will turn to either MSN or Yahoo. I have gotten a forum indexed to around 10,000 pages but then the page count dropped to around 9896 so a few hundard pages dropped for no reason
Currently there is some problems reported with site command. Personally my referrals from Google are also decrease though i add backlinks daily.