Not necessarily an ‘issue’, potentially a ‘feature’
It is up to the artist whether their musical personas are the ‘same’ or not. I don’t really want to see someone’s harsh noise side project that they specifically renamed to keep seperate from their pop identity lumped into one discography.
Google wouldn’t necessarily like that either, because someone searching for one on Google probably doesn’t want to see the top albums (or events or start date etc) from the other displayed at the top of their search.
I would be very curious to know if this circular linking could be the cause of this though (doesn’t seem likely though?)
The first part of your statement is what he didn’t want to muddy up the conversation. And that is fine with me.
But for the relevant part regarding search results:
If each of his 4 entries say -
Real name - John Smith
Also performs as - character 1, character 2, character 3
And then there’s not much more written on the first page, that is the sort of the thing that gets considered “duplicate information” and google may not be listing them because of it.
And since each name is a link, that is where it becomes circular. Because you click link one, which takes you to link 2, which takes you back to link 1 which we already said sends you to link 2 - circular.
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While I don’t think that this is the issue here, it does apply, generally, to search results.
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It is six artist pages.
Quick update: We confirmed that a lot of pages are missing and have alerted Google. No response so far, but it looks like several million pages of ours were dropped from the index. Pretty much all but the recording level should be indexed by google, but for some reason it isn’t now.
I’ve a small concern or two.
Can the servers handle a ? 25% ? increase in traffic over the next 3 months?
Have “Events” also been “not indexed”? Cause if Events soon started to take off and Musicbrainz became the global go-to live music event guide - I think the numbers would be large.
And their usage of “most relevant to you” results don’t make it any better. Local results. Cookies. I want to search the internet!
I sometimes use a VPN to change my location to get different search results.
Apparently, I am very popular on Russian websites. I have more press over there than I do in America. I should consider a tour.
I have seen things that were not previously there - and things that were there but have moved up to the head of the line (page 1 instead of page 6).
That doesn’t mean that the changes are there because of the recent data mining. They could have just as easily been changed because of normal usage.
I looked into Yahoo!, and it seems like they in turn are using Bing. So I made a Microsoft account and submitted MusicBrainz to their webmaster site thing, now just waiting for @zas to verify it. Hopefully we should be fully (or at least better) indexed by Bing/Yahoo!/DuckDuckGo soon too.
