Hi Sachit, welcome to the Forums. The results showing in the serps as the title is what Google is using for the title, they do not always keep the contents of your <title> tag in the results. Same with the meta description.

The "site:" query does not use www, so that will show you different and less accurate results than using "site:example.com" for your search. No spaces or www.

The "site:" query does not use www

Sure it does.

[site:www.example.com] returns results only from the www subdomain.

Similarly, [site:example.example.com] would only return results from the example subdomain.

[site:example.com] returns results from all subdomains.

And you can also use something like [site:example.com -site:example.example.com] to return pages in all subdomains except example.

The "site:" query does not use www, so that will show you different and less accurate results than using "site:example.com" for your search. No spaces or www.

Did you mean that the search engine doesn't auto-append "www." to the front of your "site" declaration? And that the word "that" in "that will show" refers to the OP's quoted

site:www.mycompany.com

?

I'm confused.

Sorry if this seems to be causing confusion. My response is taken from my notes regarding search operators you can use with Google to narrow or filter results. Granted, my notes are old, so I went to see what google says today: [support.google.com...] It does not need www for the site: operator. The example they quote is at "www.nbc.com" but their example uses no www.

site: Get results from certain sites or domains. For example, you can find all mentions of "olympics" on the NBC website, or any .gov websites.
Examples: olympics site:nbc.com

It also doesn't say you can't or shouldn't use it. I suppose if you don't redirect example.com to www.example.com then you may need that modifier. It is not mentioned and I don't know if adding it gives you the same results.

Also not mentioned is exactly what they do return as results (as far as "all pages" or "all indexed pages") It doesn't say that either.

For that matter, the "site" operator doesn't even need a domain name. I often specify .gov or .edu in searches.

Everybody, thanks for your help.

In my case, the result is same with and without www.

I just want to see meta title of my website in SERPs, when my company name is used as search query. I wonder how google can ignore title tag.

I have used company name along with other keywords in title, do you think it may be the reason ?

If they don't think your title is an accurate title for the page they may change it to what they consider to be more accurate. You should use a different title for each page and it should be a title of what the page is about. If you want your company name to show in the serps, the page should be about your company more than anything else. A title is not for keywords if they are unrelated to the contents of the page and maybe that's why they are changing it.