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Search Engine toolbar Star Position has reached out several times recently. They have a browser toolbar you might have seen advertised on cable networks, supposedly 35 million installs. There is a flat rate of $500 or so for search phrases. The search results get injected at the top of Google and other search engine results. [...]
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Today’s guest post is by Scott Valdez, founder of Virtual Dating Assistants.
It is really a privilege to have the opportunity to write a guest post for Online Dating Insider so early into the development of our company. For understandable reasons, we didn’t receive a considerably warm welcome to the market during the week leading up [...]
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The Google Blog post Search for “me” on Google caught my attention.
To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we’ve begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the [...]
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The Google Labs blog talks about Similar Images.
Image Search is a tool you can use to find just about any kind of image, but it can sometimes be difficult to find the right image if you can’t describe it in words. The new Similar Images feature was developed with just this in mind. Using it [...]
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Spark Networks has launched Facelink, a meta-search engine which returns online dating profile results from across all Spark properties.
Facelink reminds me of when I went to Lycos a few years ago to discuss their meta-search engine. I told Lycos that their site was destined to fail (it did) and I’m not straying too far from [...]
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Back from a few days on Nantucket. I feel like I’ve been away for a month. Next week I’m taking a few days off as well, need to get in some summertime fun while it lasts.
ReadWriteWeb says:
More than 10% of the searches for the top 10 dating search terms were URLs (match.com, plentyoffish.com) and almost [...]
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The majority of online dating companies know little about how people are using their sites.
I had this thought while I was reading about Rearden Commerce, which just raised $100 million. Patrick Grady has spent the past eight years of his life building the ultimate personal Web assistant in relative obscurity. But now his company, Rearden [...]
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Browsing PlentyOfFish, I came across a new link:
New Search –> Users who haven’t gotten an email in over 24 hours sorted by last online.
What a great idea. I’ve built out email communications campaigns for clients and have pushed for this type of functionality, but rarely see this type of messaging customization implemented.
Many sites are spending [...]
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Yahoo! Personals just introduced several updates to the searching and matching features.
Yahoo! Personals daters performing an average of 3.6 searches per day in their quest for that connection. In addition to a visual refresh that features new profile cards that more clearly convey information, additional enhancements include:
- New matching capabilities that improve search relevance by [...]
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