I was reading a post about a fellow’s issues with Google. There are certain “rules” that Google posts. Follow those, and Google is supposed to index most/all of your good pages, and none of the pages you don’t want.
Of course, Google experiments all the time, and this poor bastard had Google’s search bots trying to follow his “buy” buttons. Now that was not supposed to happen, and caused all sorts of crap to occur. Google decided that because it had problems with these pages that the rest of teh site was crap. Anyhoo, that means the guy lost a lot of revenue…
So at this point, he read up the rules Google posts, and realised at best they were half-truths. He eventually said, “I want a Clear Cut answer and not an Answer that Hides More Than It Reveals. I have had several contradicting answers on various forums.”
And, of course, he got a random jumble of words that resemble an answer. Google; you’re the best at finding info, and hiding info.
More here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=0652bb8750087926&hl=en