Old, but not that old…

If you want to see what Google is guessing in terms of preferences, age and gender, you can go here.

Google has my interests reasonably accurate. Computers, news, politics, science and football were the main ones. It also listed “Reference – General Reference – Time and Calendars” which is accurate since I’ve been reading plenty about the leap second controversy (what? you aren’t riveted on that one?).

Google has no idea I’m interested in music, but frankly I don’t read that much about it online (and I’m not listening via Google Music). And they don’t realize I’m a huge Yankee fan, but it’s not baseball season.

So overall, pretty good.

But damn, under the “Your demographics” part, while they do correctly guess that I’m male, they have me as 65+.

Ouch.

Big fat ouch.

I’m not reading about FORTRAN, I’m reading contemporary computer stuff. (side note. Geek humor courtesy of Linus here. Hilarious.). OK, I guess old people are more interested in politics. But 65+? Really?

Interestingly, while there is an Edit link on the Google Preferences page, you can’t tell them what your age is. All you can do is remove the assumption. So I did.

I wonder how long before Google thinks I’m old again…