g1smd - 1:06 am on Jun 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

I see some pages that were last modified in 2003 May and which have had the <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag on each one since at least that time, that are listed in Google as Supplemental Results with a full title and snippet, and with a full cache from 2005 June. The Google cache shows the <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag.

Google has been ignoring the robots noindex meta tag. I know. I designed that site. I am the only one with FTP access and the files have not been altered since 2003, and have always had the robots noindex on them since that date. The whole site was and still is disallowed, as it is the development copy of the site. The live site is elsewhere, on some other server.

In looking further I have found many other pages on many other sites that have exactly the same problem. You can see the noindex tag on the cached copies!