diff --git a/scrapeit/wikipedia.py b/scrapeit/wikipedia.py
index c59736e..fbd9704 100644
--- a/scrapeit/wikipedia.py
+++ b/scrapeit/wikipedia.py
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ def searchByImdb(imdb_id, title=None, director=None):
       director = director[0]
     else:
       director = ''
-  for g in google('"%s" %s site:en.wikipedia.org' % (title, director), 7):
+  q = u'%s %s site:en.wikipedia.org' % (title, director)
+  #print q.encode('utf-8')
+  for g in google(q, 7):
     url = g[1]
     data = read_url(url)
     soup = BeautifulSoup(data)