diff --git a/libmat2/web.py b/libmat2/web.py
index a31c7ca1a0981383b3a5e13fef051d481adde9a0..c11b47d3998e8d77b105e7c857d37ecbb4da8cd4 100644
--- a/libmat2/web.py
+++ b/libmat2/web.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class _HTMLParser(parser.HTMLParser):
     we're using an internal queue to track all the opening/closing tags,
     and hoping for the best.
     """
-    tag_blacklist = {'doctitle', 'meta'}  # everything is lowercase
+    tag_blacklist = {'doctitle', 'meta', 'title'}  # everything is lowercase
     def __init__(self, filename):
         super().__init__()
         self.filename = filename