Should Yahoo Acquire Competing Dating Sites?

by David Evans on August 11, 2008 · 0 comments

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In a post titled Hit The Brakes on the Yahoo Lovefest, Rick Munarriz at The Motley Fool says:

It (Yahoo) can beef up its online dating presence by buying sites like Plenty of Fish or going for IAC’s (Nasdaq: IACI) Match.com and Chemistry.com.

Yahoo has a lot going on these days, overpaying for a dating site doesn’t seem like a likely trajectory anytime soon. There are a lot of smaller niche sites that make more sense for Y! Personals, like Frumster and OKCupid to name a few off the top of my head.

I’m heading over to the Affiliate Summit in Boston in a bit. Lot’s of dating sites are in town, I’ll be meeting with everyone I can. My cell is 617-939-7916 if you want to meet up.

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