netmeg - 3:13 pm on Aug 24, 2012 (gmt 0)

I'm specifically referring to the fact they could ignore them when calculating panda ranks, not to ignore them in the serps. The only real reason to noindex them is to avoid a penalty. But since they can so easily see it's an unanswered question - why would they bother counting it against you or showing it in the serps.

Cause a bunch of people bothered to allow low quality pages to be indexed in their search engine? Just guessing.