How Google, Yahoo & MSN Handle Title Snippets If They Choke On A Page Title « « hobo

I showed recently Google will use the next available Header, be it a H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 if your page title element is screwed.

The snippet below shows Google using a H6 header as the page title.

Yahoo will actually ignore the Header tags on the same page and elect to use the anchor text of incoming links

MSN / Live seems to just go for it, and index the title as much as possible (@ 75 characters?)

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Written by Shaun Anderson

One Response to “How Google, Yahoo & MSN Handle Title Snippets If They Choke On A Page Title”

Jeet says:

May 15, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Interesting observations, I also tried MSN, Yahoo and Ask after I read your last post about google’s handling of large titles. I would say Yahoo does a pretty good job.

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