— Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, and Rand FishkinDMOZ (Open Directory) listings for your site. In this case, the search engines may choose to use a title for your page that was used in your listings in this directory, instead of the title tag on the page. There is a meta tag that allows you to block this from happening: the NOODP tag, which tells the search engine not to use DMOZ titles.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Art of SEO (Theory in Practice) by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, and Rand Fishkin.