[dahart]

> Takeaway: to dramatically decrease the chance of Google rewriting your title, matching the H1 to the title tag seems to be an effective strategy.

Of course it should be mentioned this wont last if it becomes popular. Historically every time an SEO trick gets popular, the rules are adjusted. Even having this article on the front page of HN might be enough to see Google react by rethinking how (or whether) tags in titles affect the title rewrites.

[nerdponx]

I wonder if Google is going to try out "AI"-generated titles that are directly summarized from the page content by machine, treating the page title and headings as inputs to the model.

[soco]

Next step, an AI to regenerate the contents according to what the AI thinks I should have said. </s>

[mhitza]

Problem solved WRT copyright issues relating to news articles. If the AI derived content (a la GitHub copilot) is deemed as original "unlicensed" content, no reason to force users to visit the website. (it's been a while since the news media and Google had their legal battles, and I'm unsure what the end resolution was then)

[propogandist]

artificial intelligence (or at least their corporate puppet masters) are fighting for copyright law protection on insights the AI derives from reading copyrighted pages and content on the internet.

a robots.txt can keep you safe

[phreack]

I would be surprised if that's not the case already!