Google messing with titles. Old data in the index?
Over the last few months I've come across a wierd set of results at Google and today I was able to reproduce one of the results.
Here goes:
Do a search for the keyword netop
NetOp is a remote control software company with competitors around the world and one of these seem to be leaching on their brand as I get Netop.com at spot number 1+2. Crossteccorp.com as number 3 with this serp link title:
NetOp Remote Control
Ok, nothing fancy here, however if you check the real page title at the site, you'll get this title:
Remote Control Software, Security Information Management, PC Lab Management - From CrossTec Corp.
Only one place in the page I found the word "Netop". Ok, it could be inbound links etc., but that's another story.
Now, here is the interesting point. Do a search for remote control software and you get Crosteccorp.com at #9, but with what looks to be the real title from their front page!?
So, the question is;
how is Crosteccorp able to show 2 different titles on the same page on 2 different search queries?
As far as I could tell there are no cloaking or sneaky stuff going on there (other that Crossteccorp at some point possible have had a title with their competitors name in it. Tsk tsk)
Did I miss something or does Google somehow have two titles in their index for the same page?

The Netop one is just DMOZ
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=netop
Google chose to display the DMOZ stuff because it was more relevant to the query.
been around a while
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34125.htm
And hence the introduction of the "NOODP" meta tag -
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-13-n78.html
Doh!
Of course! I can't believe I missed that and you're right PPCblogger, it's been around for a while. Thanks for clearing that up :)