Google Using Directory Listing Heading for SERP Title

Is this wide scale?

[The Cricketer]

I've recently noticed that Google is displaying a couple of my company's websites with the website's Google directory Heading displayed instead of the physical web site page title (<title></title>)

This phenomenon has been experienced previously in the forum, but I haven't heard any recent mention of it. Is this still a very small scale occurrence?

Some have said it can only be seen on very few datacenters.

It's an absolute nightmare, especially if the DMOZ editor did a bodge job on your listing.

[The Cricketer]

Must be only a small scale problem then!?

Does anyone know the cause of this problem?

[sofree]

If you search for something exactly how its title is listed in Dmoz then it will bring back that header.

[The Cricketer]

thanks for that