Multple Title tags?

what is the effect . . .

[snowfox121]

what is the effect . . . of mulitple title tags on a page. i was researching my competition tonight and came across a site that rated fairly high for some of my search terms and i notice three separate lines of title tags. The page is at: "<url snip>"

Questions: Is this proper programming? what are the advantages? How does the Google engine handle such tags. Could they improve ranking?

[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 4:54 am (utc) on Oct. 23, 2002]
[edit reason] no specific urls please [/edit]

[WebGuerrilla]

In the old days, you could get some good mileage out of multiple titles, but it doesn't help much any more.

google will pickup the first title and ignore the second.

[Brett_Tabke]

Same is true for any duplicate page tags.

<h1>Happy Fun Ball</h1>
<h1>Happy Fun Ball</h1>

Tends to kill ranking in a hurry.