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by ricardo81 1995 days ago
Nowadays Google claim that nofollow is subject to their interpretation of whether it counts as a citation or not, whereas previously they claimed it invariably did not count. As another poster mentioned, the conventional wisdom is that they always did count for something.

Google realises the link graph has been decimated by people trying to sculpt Pagerank-esque ranking factors and that a larger part of it is/was using nofollow.