Jason, I'm quite sure I'm not confused.<p>1) <i>"MORE QUALITY PAGES and more QUALITY links = bette SEO from what the top SEOs have told me. "</i><p>For this purpose, indexed by Google counts as "quality." Please read the PageRank paper, and you'll quickly see that more pages in the index == more PageRank.<p>That doesn't always mean putting crap pages into Google is a good idea, but strictly speaking, it will raise the total amount of PageRank your site has. Seriously, read the paper yourself.<p>2) <i>"but we don't scrape content. our search results do have abstracts but they are smaller than Google's, and in some cases they actually are google's."</i><p>Perhaps scrape is the wrong term. But you absolutely do include other people's content and nofollow it, for example all of the images on this page:<p><a href="http://www.mahalo.com/chupacabra" rel="nofollow">http://www.mahalo.com/chupacabra</a><p>NoFollow is meant for links to content which you don't want to "vouch" for. If you've included their content in your page, I think you can vouch for it.<p>Maybe an honest oversight, maybe not. Either way, you know about it now, so fix it.