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Mike Champion wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:54:09 +0200, Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
> wrote:
>> A question - do you think Google takes note of the title of documents
>> it indexes?
>
>
> AFAIK, no. Is that a trick question :-) <title> is a classic example
> of metacrap that web page authors don't consistently make much sensible
> use of, and thus Google doesn't bother with, would be my guess.
Actually, Google does, and suprisingly gives a lot of weight to the page title.
But this gets you into a Heisenberg effect, that is, since Google now uses page title,
over time you will see more sites set it correctly.
-joe
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