Well reading up (mostly catching up) on the V7N Forums bought me to a thread John Scott posted which discussed how the DMOZ Listing can modify/penalize your websites title in Google.

Before V7 Inc was accepted in DMOZ Directory, they had the title “V7 Quality Web Hosting - Voted Best Host of the Year”, but the DMOZ listing showed “V7 Inc”.

Now most people wouldn’t have expected a simple directory listing to affect your Google Rank, but DMOZ is the biggest directory run by volunteers (most of whom are internet celebrities) and is owned by Netscape as well as partnered with AOL Search. Google and MSN are believed to leech a few search results from DMOZ.

However, Google has been notified of this and they have offered a solution to notify their crawling robots that owners do not want the DMOZ Listing specifics. All you need to do is simply add the following meta tag your header:

The reason DMOZ doesn’t offer all the keywords in the anchor text is common directory submission guidelines. No directory offers to put keywords in the link unless it is the title of your website.