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I was wondering, it's weird when you type in my name in google my imdb listing will not show up while other things like my blog etc... will. Even if you seach my name and IMDB beside it, it still won't show up. It's annoying when professionals want to google me as I would like them to get my listing showing up.
My IMDB name has accents on a couple of letters and if I type it in with those accents then it shows up, but most people will never bother adding those when they search. Thing is I can type other peoples names without the accents and their IMDB still shows up in search engines. Is there a way to fix this besides removing the accents on my IMDB listing.
My IMDB name has accents on a couple of letters and if I type it in with those accents then it shows up, but most people will never bother adding those when they search. Thing is I can type other peoples names without the accents and their IMDB still shows up in search engines. Is there a way to fix this besides removing the accents on my IMDB listing.
Posted 7 years ago
Emperor, Champion
Dan Dassow, Champion
I tried Google searches of well known actors that have accented characters in their name; their names showed on IMDb as one of the top three searches.
Gustaf Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård
André the Giant
François Truffaut
Françoise Dorléac
Louis de Funès
Valérie Quennessen
Georges Méliès
I also tried the search without the accented characters; I got similar results.
Gustaf Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard
Andre the Giant
Francois Truffaut
Francoise Dorleac
Louis de Funes
Valerie Quennessen
Georges Melies
If you are willing to share your name on IMDb and link to your page, we may be able to track down what is happening.
Gustaf Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård
André the Giant
François Truffaut
Françoise Dorléac
Louis de Funès
Valérie Quennessen
Georges Méliès
I also tried the search without the accented characters; I got similar results.
Gustaf Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard
Andre the Giant
Francois Truffaut
Francoise Dorleac
Louis de Funes
Valerie Quennessen
Georges Melies
If you are willing to share your name on IMDb and link to your page, we may be able to track down what is happening.
Emperor, Champion
Thanks for doing the research, I find that I someone's IMDB entry is pretty much in the top 5 Google results (along with Wikipedia and their own sites/social media presence), no matter what accents they have in their name (but it was purely anecdotal).
However, it might be something unusual or a bit of weirdness in the indexing - I had an IMDB list go from the top couple of results to nowhere for that search term, until I refined it a bit and managed to drag it up again (I spotted something was wrong because it was my second most popular list and was suddenly getting a third of the visits). It struck me as a weird indexing issue from Google (perhaps the list just happened to be offline for the few seconds their robot was trying to index it, or something). I tweaked it and saved it and it is now back up to #1 again. So the answer might be as simple as adding something (a link or another line to the bio) and saving it to get it reindexed and get it back in the results. However, first we need to replicate the problem...
edit: I just checked and it has disappeared from Google again.
However, it might be something unusual or a bit of weirdness in the indexing - I had an IMDB list go from the top couple of results to nowhere for that search term, until I refined it a bit and managed to drag it up again (I spotted something was wrong because it was my second most popular list and was suddenly getting a third of the visits). It struck me as a weird indexing issue from Google (perhaps the list just happened to be offline for the few seconds their robot was trying to index it, or something). I tweaked it and saved it and it is now back up to #1 again. So the answer might be as simple as adding something (a link or another line to the bio) and saving it to get it reindexed and get it back in the results. However, first we need to replicate the problem...
edit: I just checked and it has disappeared from Google again.
Dan Dassow, Champion
On a hunch, I tried searching for a person with a StarMeter rank of over 5,000,000 that has accented charters in their name. The person's IMDb listing did not show up in the first 16 pages, but did show up if I included IMDb as part of the search.
Emperor, Champion
It is definitely a Google issue and a strange one as it is the opposite way around to the way I thought the problem would emerge.
Qïtae Bérstef-Lamarr - all the right results.
Qïtae Berstef-Lamarr - no results.
Qitae Bérstef-Lamarr - no results.
Qitae Berstef-Lamarr - one result:
http://www.peopleperhour.com/freelanc...
I can't find an obvious answer to this, if it was an encoding issue then other people on IMDB would be affected and it would only impact on IMDB but there are a lot more results from site like LinkedIn also not showing up. If it was just IMDB I might suggest you see if staff would be OK with you adding "Qitae Berstef-Lamarr" as an alternate name, but as it isn't...
I think your best bet is hitting the "Send Feedback" link below the Google results and telling them about the issues you have.
Qïtae Bérstef-Lamarr - all the right results.
Qïtae Berstef-Lamarr - no results.
Qitae Bérstef-Lamarr - no results.
Qitae Berstef-Lamarr - one result:
http://www.peopleperhour.com/freelanc...
I can't find an obvious answer to this, if it was an encoding issue then other people on IMDB would be affected and it would only impact on IMDB but there are a lot more results from site like LinkedIn also not showing up. If it was just IMDB I might suggest you see if staff would be OK with you adding "Qitae Berstef-Lamarr" as an alternate name, but as it isn't...
I think your best bet is hitting the "Send Feedback" link below the Google results and telling them about the issues you have.
Dan Dassow, Champion
I get the same results as Emperor. I concur with his assessment.
I'm also getting all the right results for Qïtae.
I'm also getting all the right results for Qïtae.
Emperor, Champion
Dan Dassow, Champion
This thread already appears in Google. So the variants of Qïtae Bérstef-Lamarr listed earlier in this thread may in part help.
Emperor, Champion
Not yet they don't as the searches for variants of her name still return the same result - which does suggest there is a problem, although quite what it is remains unclear.
