Google and title tags - Chrome shows only a wee bit of it

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[johnnie]

Did anybody notice that Chrome, due to its tabs-in-the-appbar approach, only displays a small part of a web page's intended title tag? Does this imply that google sees the title tag as something irrelevant as soon as the user lands on a page? Maybe this should motivate us towards shorter title tags?

[tedster]

I doubt that the Chrome browser is giving us an advanced warning about any algo shift. It's always been wise to keep the title tags economical - something that can be read in one glance by the average person when it shows up in a search result. My experience is that gets more clicks.

And the search result page is where the title matters most, not the "chrome" of any browser. I'm pretty sure the Chrome development team and the algo team are not in any close communication about this ;)

[pageoneresults]

There are actually a few extra metadata elements that you can use to control some of what is going on within Chrome...

Google Chrome Shortcuts and Metadata Elements
[webmasterworld.com...]

Those first few words in the <title> element are now more important than ever. Not only that, but favicon development on a per section and/or per page level may be suggested. :)