Google predicts Ashes win?
July 9, 2009
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For some reason, Google's showing a title of "BBC Sport - Cricket: Ashes 2005" for the BBC's cricket page, which is of course all about Ashes 2009.
This is despite Google's cached page having the correct title: "<title>BBC SPORT | Cricket | England</title>". Maybe Google thinks we're going to win again? Or maybe QDF stands for query deserves 4 years ago.
Update: It's taking it from the DMOZ entry according to the comment below. Odd behaviour ...
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A Freudian slip?
Where as Bing thinks you want Ashes to Ashes.......
http://www.bing.com/search?q=bbc+ashes&form=QBLH&filt=all&qs=n
"QDF = Query Deserves 4 years ago" - LOL!
Actually the title is being pulled in from a DMOZ listing for this page which has that exact title:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop&q=%22bbc.co.uk%22+ashes&as_qdr=all&btnG=Search
BBC need to add a to their page to correct this.
oops my meta tag seems to have been stripped out!
what I meant was they need a robots metatag with "NOODP" on that page to correct this.