8s82ccpio19a – position 94-105
2idi8ci11 – position 152-160
929c9dkke2 – position 188-197

The post I made with the above keywords in the title WAS the only one showing up when you searched for those words. Unfortunately I posted about it at SEOChat after I noticed my test URL ranking for ALL of the words above and hyperlinked the words in my post. I wasn’t thinking. But until I did that, my post was the ONLY results. So yes… Google is definitely indexing title element keywords at LEAST up to position 200ish in the title element.

My guess is that as long as it NOT flagged as spammy or keyword stuffing, they likely will use the entire title.

Any results yet of your testing? I have been getting too used to having my titles display cleanly in the SERPs that its time to experiment a little. I have also noted that Dave Naylor always lets his titles run over…there’s something in it.