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Is it true that Google Search can’t read more than 70 characters of a webpage title?

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  • They can read it just fine. But at some point they stop caring. – John Conde Apr 05 '16 at 01:27
  • This answer should help some: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/65767/title-in-google-does-not-match-title-of-document/65768#65768 along with this one: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69050/my-title-tag-doesnt-appear-to-be-getting-crawled-by-google-properly/69080#69080 – closetnoc Apr 05 '16 at 01:57
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    I'd stick with under 66 characters. Anything more will cause excess text to be cut off and replaced with three dots. – Mike -- No longer here Apr 05 '16 at 03:47

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From the google SEO guidelines (Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide - Page 4):

Use brief, but descriptive titles Titles can be both short and informative. If the title is too long, Google will show only a portion of it in the search result.

AVOID:

  • using extremely lengthy titles that are unhelpful to users
  • stuffing unneeded keywords in your title tags

Link to: Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

As outlined, titles should not be too long - eventually make use of the "description" meta tag (Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide - Page 6)

Description meta tags are important because Google might use them as snippets for your pages.

To answer the question: to me this is obvious - titles should be as short as possible - for a detailed description the description meta tag should be applied. For your specific question - there is no direct answer - as im aware <55 chars is perfect, ~65 chars are reasonable but still a lot, 75 absolute maximum and should be avoided.