Redirect Hurts "Google Checkout" Title on SERPS

[outrun]

Currently Searching google checkout on google brings the correct page but different title.

[tedster]

This story broke on digg earlier today, and then Danny Sullivan did some digging of his own and wrote it up on
SearchEngineLand. Danny's language makes it clear that he is making an educated guess::

However, I think the redirection that Google has in place might be preventing the crawler from reaching the page. Many Google products like Google Checkout annoyingly have no static URL. If you try to reach the home page at [checkout.google.com,...] a huge redirected URL takes its place. Come one, Google -- enough with this!

[searchengineland.com...]

The takeaway for me is the knowledge that Google sometimes uses inbound anchor text for the title of a search engine result.