If you know the full name of a person, you can determine gender using any image search engine but in cases where you have no clue about the name but have access to his or her computer, this tool may help.
It will guess the gender of a person by analyzing the web browsing history available in either IE or Firefox.
The logic behind the tool is simple but intelligent. It creates a local list of websites that have been accessed from the computer and then determines gender based on male to female ratio of uses on these sites.
The men-women ratio related data is provided by Quantcast while the script Social History helps the tool access web history on the local computer.
Talking of genders, there’s another tool called Gender Analyser that analyzes the content of a website to determine gender of the person who is writing that site. Not very accurate but close. Thanks ProgrammableWeb.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/visited-websites-can-reveal-persons-gender/5116/
Tags: Archives, fun, gender, history, Web Browsers
Reader Comments
“Not very accurate but close.” lol maxxxx amit
Written by mark on 10.31.08
Shit! Its telling my site is written by a woman!
Hopes they will correct my “gender” as they are out of beta!
Written by ArpitNext on 10.31.08
Other websites that implement u Classify are also quite fun
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Written by benjamin on 10.31.08
%63 chance of being a male. Pretty good odds.
Written by Cool Products on 10.31.08
This is funny, it says Guy Kawasaki is a woman … :D
Written by Supreet on 10.31.08
It seems they have good database, working fine for all most all the blogs.
Written by Ninja on 11.03.08
I tested a few blogs written by women, but it showed it as man, so I’m not sure what exactly it analyses
Written by Ajay on 11.05.08