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Re:Ask HN: flirt140, how are they determining the gender? by aneesh on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:47PM (#608135)
There's a similar service at genderanalyzer.com, based on UClassify's API - http://blog.uclassify.com/gender-text-analysis/.

It thinks Sergey Brin writes like a woman: http://www.genderanalyzer.com/?url=too.blogspot.com

Re:Ask HN: flirt140, how are they determining the gender? by jdale27 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:53AM (#608265)
Maybe that ad for 23andme was actually written by Sergey's wife.
Re:Ask HN: flirt140, how are they determining the gender? by blurry on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:29PM (#609320)
What a load of crap. According to this tool, Linus Torvalds writes like a woman, and so do Zed Shaw and Steve Yegge.