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by bo1024 1611 days ago
In other words, Google's policy is that the search result isn't showing the page title, it's showing Google's short description of the page. If Google thinks your page title is an adequate description it might use that, otherwise it will write its own.

(edit: and Google has enough self-importance to advise you to write your title as if it were a short description, to make their job easier)