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: My website title shows up slightly different from what's in my title tag, only in Google search I've included my page title in the title tag in this format: " blah blah blah | sitename ".

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I've included my page title in the title tag in this format:
" blah blah blah | sitename ". But for some reason it's showing up on Google search results as " sitename: blah blah blah ".

It shows up right on the actual tab itself, and even right on both Bing and Yahoo search, but different on Google search. Can't figure out why.

EDIT: Let me clarify: I really doubt that this is due to Google having not crawled my website yet. The title it previously had was very different from this (several different words), and the title that currently shows up on the search is not even remotely similar to my old one. Hence the confusion. And I've already submitted it and a sitemap to the Google webmasters tool.

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@Ann8826881

Google may change the title of your page in their search results (since 2012-01):


We use many signals to decide which title to show to users, primarily the <title> tag if the webmaster specified one. But for some pages, a single title might not be the best one to show for all queries, and so we have algorithms that generate alternative titles to make it easier for our users to recognize relevant pages.


See also the documentation at support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624:

Google's generation of page titles and descriptions (or "snippets") is completely automated and takes into account both the content of a page as well as references to it that appear on the web. The goal of the snippet and title is to best represent and describe each result and explain how it relates to the user's query.

[…]

While we can't manually change titles or snippets for individual sites, we're always working to make them as relevant as possible.




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