Oh, now I understand.
Google rewrites many page titles
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Re: Google rewrites many page titles
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I think you've got this wrong - they should heavily editorialize the titles. Honest titles of search results: * Five pages of flowery text and images before two lines of instruction on how to boil rice * A bunch of tantalizing pictures of exactly what you're looking for but zero further information about it * Product reviews machine-generated from public review sources with affiliate links. Top-rated product has the…
Would also be nice if they edited things to actually be true, e.g. * e-bike with 10 miles of actual range even though they advertise 30 miles * laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage even though they advertise 10 hours * median $450 flight even though they advertise it as $199
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Re: Google rewrites many page titles
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you've got this wrong - they should heavily editorialize the titles. Honest titles of search results: * Five pages of flowery text and images before two lines of instruction on how to boil rice * A bunch of tantalizing pictures of exactly what you're looking for but zero further information about it * Product reviews machine-generated from public review sources with affiliate links. Top-rated product has the…
Would also be nice if they edited things to actually be true, e.g. * e-bike with 10 miles of actual range even though they advertise 30 miles * laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage even though they advertise 10 hours * median $450 flight even though they advertise it as $199
> laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage
Is there any laptop on the market that lives up to this. Even top specced MBPs I've gotten from work fall down when you actually use the CPU with compilers and VMs.
Re: Google rewrites many page titles
#224Google has a guide on this :) https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearanc...
In other words, Google's policy is that the search result isn't showing the page title, it's showing Google's short description of the page. If Google thinks your page title is an adequate description it might use that, otherwise it will write its own.
(edit: and Google has enough self-importance to advise you to write your title as if it were a short description, to make their job easier)
Re: Google rewrites many page titles
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would also be nice if they edited things to actually be true, e.g. * e-bike with 10 miles of actual range even though they advertise 30 miles * laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage even though they advertise 10 hours * median $450 flight even though they advertise it as $199
> laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage Is there any laptop on the market that lives up to this. Even top specced MBPs I've gotten from work fall down when you actually use the CPU with compilers and VMs.
My simple M1 mpb 16gb seems to work for almost 2 hours when hammering the cpu. Haven’t timed it actually but I find it astonishing compared to the Dell mess I’ve had to deal with before.
Re: Google rewrites many page titles
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I think that is the worst reason for them to rewrite titles. If they left the title as-is, then I would be able to see in the search results that it was a spammy site and ignore it. Instead Google is helping to launder their SEO and present it as a more legitimate site. If Google thinks a site is gaming their algorithms they should de-prioritize it, not rewrite it.
I think you've got this wrong - they should heavily editorialize the titles. Honest titles of search results: * Five pages of flowery text and images before two lines of instruction on how to boil rice * A bunch of tantalizing pictures of exactly what you're looking for but zero further information about it * Product reviews machine-generated from public review sources with affiliate links. Top-rated product has the…
Imagine if your CLI tools did this.
Re: Google rewrites many page titles
#227> Many site owners find that the titles they carefully craft almost all get rewritten. Yeah, I'm with Google on this one. I don't see many reasons why a site owner would spend extraordinary amounts of time to "carefully craft" page titles other than SEO and optimizing for clickbaitness. As a user, I'm fine with Google counteracting this.
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#228> Many site owners find that the titles they carefully craft almost all get rewritten. Yeah, I'm with Google on this one. I don't see many reasons why a site owner would spend extraordinary amounts of time to "carefully craft" page titles other than SEO and optimizing for clickbaitness. As a user, I'm fine with Google counteracting this.
I think that is the worst reason for them to rewrite titles. If they left the title as-is, then I would be able to see in the search results that it was a spammy site and ignore it. Instead Google is helping to launder their SEO and present it as a more legitimate site. If Google thinks a site is gaming their algorithms they should de-prioritize it, not rewrite it.
AMEN to that
Re: Google rewrites many page titles
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
This title edit was not for an article, which is what confused me. A user submit a self post, a rant basically which got popular, and the title was edited hours later.
It's totally ordinary for a post to go front-page and attract hundreds of comments on the basis of a title that's later deemed too interesting/editorialized/whatever, and you later see some dry uninformative title like "Google account security" or whatever it was occupying a top slot. I can't say I've noticed it often before for text posts, but I do generally think this pattern of closing the barn door after the hors…
It's just wrong to change the title of a self post imho.
Without making it publicly known at least... you're changing what the poster intended to say.
Editing sensationalised headlines back to sanity makes perfect sense though.
Re: Google rewrites many page titles
#230I hate those dropdown things that say "How to change gamma values in gimp" and they lead to a YouTube tutorial.
Please stop serving me YouTube tutorials; they all suck.