Interesting, were they saying that they [Google] don't always comply with NOFOLLOW? Or were they referring to other SE's? Do you know? Thanks and rgds
Sorry, I misread the question. Google didn't discuss no follow, just no index and robots.txt What they were saying with no index was that the command, itself, doesn't always work. They suggested as a test was to run an internal search on the page you are trying to keep private to see if it shows up. They said you'd be surprised how often it does. They felt robot.txt was more reliable.
Let me get this straight. If a site links to me, and I link back with a "nofollow", that will be a one-way link, right?
I had one of my articles declined by payperpost due to a comment by someone else had a no-follow tag in his link. I quickly pointed out that this was out of my control and this had no reflection of my blog or that article, only the comment. It was then approved. So, no-follow tags can affect some things. Regards, Col