<Title> Are there new trends?

Notice higher ranking sites are using...

[eboda]

Recently while playing the engine position game with my competition… I have noticed that their method of <title> tag use has changed. In this change they moved over me to the top.

My competition uses this format:
<snip><title>Company Widget-Craft-Services-Production City-State </title></snip>

This is something I have noticed over recent months by other people listed in engines… But I want to know how search engines especially Google view this.

It seems connecting-Keywords-with-the-hyphen allows the search engine to see it as one word or separate words no?

eboda

[Marcia]

eboda, I believe they're seen as separate words. It may be that they're used instead of commas as word delimiters. This discussion on hyphens or underscores in URLs is relevant:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[martinibuster]

Yes, all the hyphens do is separate the words. The same as leaving a blank space between the words. It doesn't make a difference. For example,

A search on google for "meals-on-wheels" will produce the exact same results as "meals on wheels"

No difference.

Occasionally you will see people doing quite unorthodox things with their titles and metas. You will even see people doing things that are downright funky.

These manipulations have more in common with superstition than with any genuine insight gleaned from a meaningful study of search engine results.