Post War Generation and Start of Google Searches

Cultural generations, unlike familial generations are cohorts of people who were born in the same date range and share similar cultural experience. In the Western world various attempts have been made to enumerate generations. Interestingly, the commencement of Generation-Y is generally regarded to be people born in/or around the early 1980’s and yet the bulk of Google searches for “gen y” commenced around 2005. Those born between 1990’s and now are commonly regarded as Gen-Z and yet the bulk of Google search volume for “”gen z” commenced around 2009.

• The lost generation 1914 those fighting in WW1
• The greatest generation 1901 - 1924
• Silent generation 1925 - 1945
• The baby boomers 1946 - 1964
• Generation X 1960’s – 1970’s
• Generation Y 1980’s - 1995 Substantial Google search commenced in '05
• Generation Z 1990’s - current Substantial Google search commenced in '08
• Generation slashers Informal mentions