Google supports META NOODP tag
 

In some circumstances, Google uses descriptions from the Open Directory Project as the title and snippet for a web result; this tag lets you opt out of the ODP title and description.

<meta name=”robots” content=”noodp”>

Read more at:-
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google...eta-noodp-tag/

What you thing it will help in ranking or just the user we see the orginal tilte instead of ODP Title

You can now present actual/own title to search user's in Google. I also heard that MSN created it.