Huh, that's interesting... I don't recall seeing the publisher's ad on the results page when I did it - but then, I habitually blank out ads anyway.
On another note: I was right, word choice and sentence length were the triggers it cued off! (I knew it couldn't be paying any attention to punctuation after I tried Tolkien and got Lovecraft; Tolkien's use of colons is quite distinctive.)
I don't really see why people get miffy that it always gives you some famous author or other, no matter what you put in; it's a computer program. It had to give one of the answers available to it, and "You don't write like any famous author" obviously wasn't an option - not least because if it were included it would be so very common! ;-)
Oh well. It did make me sit down and think about the changes I can see in my own writing style since I got into fandom, and realize that I've been imitating other writers more than I want to. For that, at least, I thank it. :-)
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On another note: I was right, word choice and sentence length were the triggers it cued off! (I knew it couldn't be paying any attention to punctuation after I tried Tolkien and got Lovecraft; Tolkien's use of colons is quite distinctive.)
I don't really see why people get miffy that it always gives you some famous author or other, no matter what you put in; it's a computer program. It had to give one of the answers available to it, and "You don't write like any famous author" obviously wasn't an option - not least because if it were included it would be so very common! ;-)
Oh well. It did make me sit down and think about the changes I can see in my own writing style since I got into fandom, and realize that I've been imitating other writers more than I want to. For that, at least, I thank it. :-)