Ask HN: Feedback on Age Directory based on Yahoo BOSS

http://www.agedir.com/

by ptm • 17 years ago

5 11 17 years ago

agedir.com

chris11• 17 years ago

You may want to filter some of the pics you use. The one you are using for Lance Armstrong has him naked.

ptm5• 17 years ago

I'm using Yahoo BOSS search thumbnail service with Safesearch turned on; not sure why it doesn't pick these up.

Thanks for the feedback.

huhtenberg2• 17 years ago

Does it solve a problem that actually exists ?

I am having hard time seeing how "estimating an accurate age of a celebrity" could be worthy of a standalone service.

ptm5• 17 years ago

It doesn't. I just wanted to use Yahoo BOSS to extract some simple semantic data.

huhtenberg2• 17 years ago

Ok, cool. I assumed it was the case.

raju• 17 years ago

Shouldn't it be so that dead celebrities don't have an age? John Lennon shows up at 68 (which I believe to be correct) but that's assuming he was still alive, yes?

ptm5• 17 years ago

Yes, it is assuming he was alive :).

It gets the date of birth via Yahoo BOSS and computes the age accordingly, the date of death (if any) is not accounted for.

villageidiot• 17 years ago

Are you planning on publicizing it on gossip sites & making money from advertising? Or is this just a toy project?

ptm5• 17 years ago

Toy project.

pt• 17 years ago

Site down?

ptm5• 17 years ago

Sorry, EveryDNS took the site down for a while - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529445

Ask HN: Feedback on Age Directory based on Yahoo BOSS

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