rfgdxm1 - 12:04 am on Dec 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

>I would think people would misunderstand the titles to think that google was pointing out their websites as recommendations. I wonder if GG considers this bad or not.

If Google is concerned about this, just filtering out these characters makes a lot more sense than penalizing. Some of the webmaters using these may not even thinking about SEO. Think here a teenager who add these to her page title because she saw her girlfriend do it on her site, and just thinks it "looks cool."