Relevance of title field in doc library

Bit of a debate at work and I'm trying to dig up some hard facts.
We have been told that the title field in a document library and is pointless and can lead to user confusion between title/filename and basically adds no value. There has been recent talk of hiding the title field altogether from forms.
My concern is the effect this may have on search results.
We have our own custom meta data fields so this question doesn't relate to collecting meta data - we are covered there.
I have hunted down some info and have read comments saying that title is second only to content when it comes to the search algorithm. I've also read other articles that are less specific and just say it is good.
Is there a definitive answer?
This is a 2010 question but will also apply for our upgrade to 2013 which will be happening soon.
1. How does the title field feature when ranking results.
2. Is there a list/URL that defines all aspects of relevance building?

Hi ,
Relevance is about how closely the search results that are returned to the user match what the user wanted to find.
The formula to calculate relevance uses two areas of ranking called Static and Dynamic ranking.
Dynamic Ranking (query-dependent ranking) is where the property values or content of an item affects the ranking score. As example the ‘Title’ field can be evaluated against the search criteria and the more important we consider the field
to be, the higher the ranking score will be for items where the value in the ‘Title’ field have a closer match to the search criteria.
Static Ranking (query-independent ranking) is where the content or property values of an item do not determine the ranking of the item.
Dynamic Ranking contains Title Extraction - only performed on Microsoft Office files. In scenarios where the ‘Title’ field of an Office file does not accurately reflect the contents of the item (example when a title of a file is ‘Presentation
1’ or ‘Document 1’), Enterprise Search detects another candidate for title within the body of the content item, and includes this value with the actual title when calculating relevance.
More information, please refer to the link:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20649.sharepoint-2010-improve-search-relevance.aspx
I hope this helps.
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Wendy
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