We've spent dozens if not hundreds of man-hours trying to come up with reliable heuristics to get rid of "title junk". The state of the web in this regard is s

We've spent dozens if not hundreds of man-hours trying to come up with reliable heuristics to get rid of "title junk". The state of the web in this regard is shameful. There are many sites that don't even include the article title in <title> at all (even hackers like Zed Shaw get this wrong). It is yet another thing that proves the rule that "metadata that isn't prominently visible in the browser is guaranteed to be wrong" (see meta description, meta keywords, and comments for worse examples. These often aren't even escaped properly.)