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Archive for October, 2009

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is reported to have died. Al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds earlier this year, after claims he only had 3 months to live, suffering from prostate cancer.

Legal representative is denying reports that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has died.

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  • During a recent project involving a fair few languages for a large technology company, we came up against the fact that the local translation of an acronym, didn’t really make sense to the client. We therefore wanted to ensure that the client was happy (by including our target keyword) as well as we were targeting the localised keyword to ensure we caught the traffic. Our decision: include the local word, followed by the English acronym in parentheses, or brackets.

    But does Google display them in the SERPs?

    A quick search brought up nothing, so the power of the blog prevailed once more:

    Parentheses in page titles

    Image of SERP showing parentheses in page titles

    And there you have it, Google WILL display parentheses in page titles!

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