<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"Last week, we asked if Google was picking titles from Google Maps?  It turned out to not be the case.  In fact, there has been a surprising number of people complaining about the titles Google is showing for a specific page in the search results.A newer thread at Google Webmaster Help brings up a new case where a search for http://www.animationarena.com/best-animation-schools.html returned a title that read \"Schools that teach Flash - Best Animation Schools\" as opposed to just \"Best Animation Schools.\"  It seems to be fixed for me now, but JohnMu of Google did chime in.John said:There are certain situations where we'd replace a title in search results (as is happening here), for example if we find that the same title is used on a number of pages or if the title is otherwise not that good (eg \"Home\"). It looks like in this case we chose a weird title -- I've passed it on to the team so that they can take a look and adjust things if possible. Now, John replied with a similar message to several other threads or blog posts.  Google must have done something recently which caused many titles to be overwritten by what Google thinks would be a more appropriate title.Let's explore what John said a bit more.  A different title may be used in the Google search results if:(1) \"The same title is used on a number of pages,\" a duplicate content title adjustment? (2) \"The title is otherwise not that good (eg \"Home\")\", which we knew for a  while now.The first one is most interesting to me and I personally have never seen Google admit before.Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<https://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020419.html>