Yep, you're right. There are two aspects to the new G+ search features: indicating that a link was shared by one of your friends, and the sidebar that links re

Yep, you're right. There are two aspects to the new G+ search features: indicating that a link was shared by one of your friends, and the sidebar that links relevant G+ profiles. The former is presumably limited by rel=nofollow, but the latter has no relation to rel=nofollow. If you search for "WWE", Google doesn't show you the @wwe Twitter account in the sidebar. The fact that Google is told not to follow any outgoing links posted by the @wwe account isn't a valid explanation for that, especially when you consider that (a) Google definitely has twitter.com/wwe indexed, and (b) twitter.com/wwe almost certainly has a high PageRank due to incoming links.