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Re: Google rewrites many page titles

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It's quite funny to me that people are running these kind of almost scientific experiments on a fully human-generated and in principle knowable system. The reason are understandable of course but it does seem like a waste of human energy.

Re: Google rewrites many page titles

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tldr: Google sometimes uses headings instead of titles. Match them to prevent title rewrite; stop using long, verbose titles

As a search engine developer I totally get why. HTML in the wild is not well behaved in the slightest. People use title and heading tags in all manner of weird ways. I've seen -tags in the -tag used as headings. I've seen documents where every line was a -tag.

You kinda need to make the most of what you're given.

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