spaceylacie - 9:58 pm on Jun 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

they are not using that data in the ranking algo

True, caught the same thing, then asked why. The reason for this is that they can't at this time. Too many spammers would take advantage of this, or already try to... writing anything in their title tags just to get a click. Once the spammers are out(hopefully one day), CTR might come into play in organic SERPS.