1) "MORE QUALITY PAGES and more QUALITY links = bette SEO from what the top SEOs have told me. "
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.
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.
2) "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."
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:
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.
Maybe an honest oversight, maybe not. Either way, you know about it now, so fix it.
1) "MORE QUALITY PAGES and more QUALITY links = bette SEO from what the top SEOs have told me. "
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.
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.
2) "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."
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:
http://www.mahalo.com/chupacabra
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.
Maybe an honest oversight, maybe not. Either way, you know about it now, so fix it.