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Show HN: Weltschmerz by age
- lautreamont 8y agoLinguistic 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 30-40. "i want to lose weight" peaks at 12-15, "want to lose weight" at 40-50. I wasn't aware of preference for the "I am X and I do Y" scheme vs the "I am X and do Y" one being correlated to age, but the data seems to say so.
- mariocesar 8y agoReally cool
- sureaboutthis 8y agoI'm not sure what I'm looking at.
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- unwind 8y agoThe 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 downer, in my opinion.
- m4r35n357 8y agoI never saw any results, maybe it's broken? [UPDATE] it works in Chromium, but not Firefox.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoWhat are the numbers on the right for?
- sundayedition 8y agoThat's the age range it replaces X with. It conducts the query multiple times, across that range. It makes sense if you just press "Go" when you visit the page (don't change anything). My first instinct was to replace X with an integer and you only get one result when you do that.
- ssijak 8y agoIt 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"
- ChrisGranger 8y agoIt worked for me when I tried "I weigh X pounds" from 100 to 250... I think it only returns results for queries that have been asked enough times to generate Google's suggestions.
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- code_duck 8y agoMy takeaway is that people use this query for things they are worried about. Personally, I have never entered my age as part of a full sentence in a search query.
- fiiv 8y agoWow, cool project! Funny how with the query there's so many results to do with being or getting pregnant.
- majewsky 8y agoAny recommendations which queries to try besides "I am X years old and"?
- stared 8y agoTo 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" (1-100), etc. Waiting for for more suggestions!
- yorwba 8y ago"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 younger than older (and a bunch of pregnancy worries), while "my boyfriend is X" shows more older than younger (and a disturbing age range with completion "... and im 14"). "I got X" (0–100) yields grade distributions, but they seem to skew to the top (at least if you go by "percentile in cat", which should be uniform but isn't).
- aequitas 8y ago"I drank X " 0 to 50, gives a nice indication of when people had to much of something to no longer be able to use Google. And drinking 10 days old doesn't kill you (other conditions might apply).
- kip_ 8y ago"My baby is X months old and" led to discovering much fretting by parents.
- roland35 8y agoWhat I'd like to know is who searched for "I am 80 years old and pregnant"?
- tomhoward 8y agoFYI "Weltschmerz" is a German word variously defined as... 1) German, from Welt ‘world’ + Schmerz ‘pain’ 2) Sadness or melancholy at the evils of the world; world-weariness 3) Sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life
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- blauditore 8y agoThis is not a portmanteau at all. It's just two words combined.
- sshine 8y agoDoing 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. "have no friends" appears somewhat age-independent but does have peaks.
- k__ 8y agoEnd of their 30s people stop asking why they are single and start asking why they are tired.
- stared 8y agoAuthor here. I defrosted a 4-year old project, thanks to this tweet: https://twitter.com/brian_bilston/status/1031844013236789248 https://twitter.com/brian_bilston/status/1031844013236789248 ("Love in the Age of Google"). Also, a lot of inspiration from various xkcd experiments with Google search (such as "I should have" https://xkcd.com/458/ https://xkcd.com/458/ and "stripped game of life" https://xkcd.com/696/ https://xkcd.com/696/). Looking for interesting phrases. (Found one? Share it!) Also, since this project is old, I would have started it with better modularizaiton (Vue?) + texts in url bar. If you want to fork it, go for it.
- ChrisGranger 8y agoThis 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"
- stared 8y agoFixed.
- ChrisGranger 8y agoThat was fast!
- stared 8y agoI hope Google won't be nearly as fast. ;)
- wintorez 8y agoOh, this is depressing. :(
- kjjw 8y agoFunny I find it uplifting. The human experience is universal.
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- yetisnack 8y agoI don't know if I'd call it depressing. I think the results are more an indication of how we use search engines in general than an accurate portrayal of the human condition. We search out answers to our questions and solutions to our problems, right? I'd guess it's pretty rare for someone to enter a string like "I'm 20 years old and I'm in perfect health!" or "I'm 38 years old and I've never had a cavity" in a search box. Still, kind of interesting to see the types of things a demographic wants answers to.
- karakanb 8y agoI just get horizontal line with numbers on it, there is nothing else on the page when I click "Go!". Is it down somehow?
- k__ 8y agoI used it with "I am 30 years old and" which yielded your result. But you have to use an X as placeholder somewhere.
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- heinrichf 8y agoNote: you need to disable PrivacyBadger (if installed) to allow the (many) requests to suggestqueries.google.com
- lainga 8y agoWorks for other stuff too. Try "District X" from 8 to 12.