Google serp result had html tags visable.....

[johnyfav]

Maybe it means nothing.

I did a serach for blue widgets (a particular term that relates to one of items).

There I was in the SERP and it was like this

Title
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah <br /> <br /> blah blah blah blah blah

If that makes sense?

Should google not get rid of the tags?

[g1smd]

I see this a lot. The author of that page forgot to close a tag somewhere.

Run the page through [validator.w3.org...] and you'll soon see where the problem is.

[vincevincevince]

It's often due to people putting WYSIWYG editors into CMS systems which then produce snippets. The < and > are probably being output as &lt; and &gt;