Incorrect Titles, Descriptions & URLs showing up

Google is showing wrong info for listings

[IRWINjim]

Has anyone noticed that Google is showing incorrect titles, descriptions and URLs for listings.

I have a few listing where the URL is correct, but the Title is from somebody elses site.

What gives?

[Imaster]

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[ThomasB]

IRWINjim, first of all welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Since how long do you see this problem? It's possible, and I also saw it in the past, that there are some a few problems, but I think the percentage is sth below 0,001%

[ogletree]

I had it happen to me then my Index page fell off. This was after I completly changed the site. I then put the site back and evey thing was ok. I found out one of my old florida hit site was poison to google. Not because of links but because of what is on the page. I redid the site I am waiting to see if what I did fixes it. I think it may be a 1pix image link that my developer put on and did not tell me.

[ByronM]

I'm seeing *OLD* titles coming in. Infact during one search i saw my meta description and title come over.

I dropped from a pro of 6 on my main page to a pr of 4 and then a pr2 of on the forums page. I think that is because i setup hard links to / and /index.php?home=idx and /

(/ and the forums are the same url, just different index.php parameters)

Anyhow, yes.. my titles are old and out of sync

[IRWINjim]

I've encountered old titles before, but the titles showing belong to sites not owned by me. Sites that I link to.

For instance, my site URL is

www.xyz.com and the Title should be XYY Title

but it's showing up as

www.xyz.com with a title of 'Title of somebody elses page'

Very strange. Seeing it on 2 different sites.

[drewls]

I've noticed old titles coming up in allintitle: searches. That's all I've seen so far.