One in five singles looks for love on the Web

by David Evans on November 8, 2002

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Rufus Griscom wrote a piece in WIRED Why Are Online Personals So Hot? stating that “One in five singles looks for love on the Web”. Whether this is the result of third-party research or marketing fluff remains to be seen. If you take match.com recent earnings and do some basic match I think this number can be debunked pretty easily.

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