tedster - 7:21 pm on Jan 29, 2011 (gmt 0)

I'll give it a start. Yes, characters in the title element are indexed well beyond the seventy or so that make it into the visible display. Sometimes, if the truncation point would hide a keyword in the query phrase, I've seen Google place a dieresis (...) in the middle of the title somewhere so there is room to display the important keyword.