i was reading the todd malicoat interview is google ignoring the robots tags and penalizing sites for duplication even where its told not to index, or is google just ignoring the robot tags? I'm rather worried about this as i have a contact us page which is the same but has information for 7 different countries, you click on the country your in and it changes a little bit of information, namely the title and headings, and is otherwise the same, i added no index tags to this page.
It looks like a bug. They will probably sort this out rapidly. Google is not more "bug free" than Microsoft or others. Nothing to worry about, imo. Jean-Luc
seems like its not a bug since they followed the robots tags before, and now they do (according to todd) which means they changed their algo for this.
Don't worry, only in rare cases does googlebot not follow the tags, and googlebot not following your restrictions is the least of your worries