[3] According to the Toronto Star, the website's popularity soared as a result of a series of rants made by actor Mel Gibson;[2] New York City-based blog Gawker submitted transcripts of Gibson's rants to find that the site website compared them to writings by Canadian writer and feminist Margaret Atwood.
The Star also reported the result that Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty's Children’s hospital in Ottawa celebrates big expansion closely resembles Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
[2] The Guardian reported that Atwood herself tried out the website, and it said that her writing resembles that of novelist Stephen King in one attempt and like Joyce on another try.
[1] Despite the website's early success, Chestnykh was cautious to say that its accuracy still needs improvement, as he has only been able to upload "a few books by some 50 different authors" into its database.
He says that he intends to include advanced features such as "probability percentages" that a user-submitted passage resembles a certain author.