walkman - 4:27 pm on Dec 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

>> No one from Google has said to hide navigation with javascript. No one from Google has even said that having an identical menu on every page was a potential duplicate content problem. That's just the conjecture of a few people, but it makes no sense to me, either.

sure Tedster, but menus are "boilerplate repetition" with up to 100 words in many cases, so it's not that far fetched. I think, and hope, that Goog keeps in mind that not all sites have 1000 word articles on every page.