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chris11
You may want to filter some of the pics you use. The one you are using for Lance Armstrong has him naked.
ptm
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.

huhtenberg
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.

ptm
It doesn't. I just wanted to use Yahoo BOSS to extract some simple semantic data.
huhtenberg
Ok, cool. I assumed it was the case.
raju
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?
ptm
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
Are you planning on publicizing it on gossip sites & making money from advertising? Or is this just a toy project?
ptm
Toy project.