Ask HN: Feedback on Age Directory based on Yahoo BOSS

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.

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

Ok, cool. I assumed it was the case.

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?

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.

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

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.

Site down?

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

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

Toy project.