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The effect is similar to use dynamic keywords. Google changes my title and removes my description completely, so you see only title and url.
I guess that is something good for site but I'd love to know exactly what is going on.
Is that some kind of experiment?
Is it related to adwords campaign (I have one active for that site)?
Site is not listed on dmoz and title has nothing to do with that.
Saw this post and seems to be something like that
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Google changes my title and removes my description completely, so you see only title and url.
That sounds like the same effect as with URLs that are excluded via robots exclusion, or are retrieved from the nether reaches of one of Google's indices. Usually the title is not taken from the page, but is present in a link to the page. Google shows this text for excluded pages since the exclusion prevents them from using text contained within the page itself.
Note that there can be many different versions of a page stored by Google, and so which one you see depends on a whole variety of factors, not least the formulation of your search query.
Google shows this text for excluded pages since the exclusion prevents them from using text contained within the page itself.
Why would Google do that?
Is that permanent?
Is that permanent?
Nothing's permanent ;)
If there's a solid link into an excluded page (excluded via robots.txt not via a meta element) then they will usually stick around. Pages that were previously indexed and then excluded often end up as a URL-only entry and become progressively harder to retrieve in results.
