Weltschmerz by age
Consumer and social
search experiment
SHOW HN2018
72points
33comments
#604of 2,155 in 2018
Top 29%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 7 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting linguistic and demographic patterns in search queries
From 3 comments
Doing the "I am X years old and" for X in [30,40], a few observations: "want to go back to school" and "broke" stop at 40. "have no energy" and "can't lose weight" start at 40.…
sshine on HNLinguistic observation with the default setting (I am [12-50] years old and): "i don't know what to do with my life" peaks at 20-25, "don't know what to do with my life" at…
lautreamont on HN"sleep X" (0–50) is an interesting mix of sleep disorders, child care, programming and some fad of sleeping 15, 20 or 30 minutes every 4 hours. "My girlfriend is X" shows more…
yorwba on HN
Cool or nifty project
From 3 comments
Really cool
mariocesar on HNThis is nifty. I'm kind of surprised Google hasn't flagged you for being a bot, doing all these queries. There's a typo while querying: "quering"
ChrisGranger on HNWow, cool project! Funny how with the query there's so many results to do with being or getting pregnant.
fiiv on HN
Objections
Results depressing or downbeat
From 2 comments
Oh, this is depressing. :(
wintorez on HNThe result of Google search's auto-complete for the string on the left of "[Google autocomplete...]", so some kind of most common query with that particular prefix. Quite the…
unwind on HN
Does not work or confusing interface until used correctly
From 4 comments
I just get horizontal line with numbers on it, there is nothing else on the page when I click "Go!". Is it down somehow?
karakanb on HNIt does not work for me when I try to change the query in any way. For example "I have X years left to live and"
ssijak on HNI never saw any results, maybe it's broken? [UPDATE] it works in Chromium, but not Firefox.
m4r35n357 on HNI'm not sure what I'm looking at.
sureaboutthis on HN
Requests
Suggestions for other query templates to try
From 2 comments
Any recommendations which queries to try besides "I am X years old and"?
majewsky on HNTo get it grim try "X months since" (1-24); similar for years. To get a lot of time-stuff "I had sex X" (1-30), to get about money "I need X" (1-30), about weight "I lost X"…
stared on HN
Questions
What the numbers on the right mean
From 1 comment
What are the numbers on the right for?
sureaboutthis on HN
Who searches for odd queries like pregnancy at 80
From 1 comment
What I'd like to know is who searched for "I am 80 years old and pregnant"?
roland35 on HN