understanding SEO
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Yeah I'm not sure I believe the cap idea either. I think the basic idea that they are getting a lot more picky about what they index and what they don't is probably the best takeaway from that article in terms of how it could affect a small to medium sized site. So rather than cut you off at a specific number of pages (or even a dynamic cap of some kind), they might just look at whether a page is worth indexing, based from what I've seen largely on how many links it gets.
But what you seem to be saying is that Google, seeing that you have some pages that are linked (good PageRank) vs a bunch of new ones that aren't, won't penalize you for the new ones. i.e., the unlinked pages won't hurt you they can only help.
And maybe that's right but I think another possibility is that there might be more of a sitewide average being used. If you look at large sites that almost always come up in the top 10, like Amazon, Wikipedia, etc, my guess would be that they have a pretty even distribution of links to different pages in their site. So it's possible that it's a factor in terms of the overall success of your site, although I'll admit I don't have any real evidence to back it up;) I think it kinda makes sense though.