The Date.com chat feature has been up for a while, although the official press release went out this week.
In other news, Userplane has announced Sitesearch:
Userplane Sitesearch is a powerful search engine easily integrated into any community-based site. You’ve built a good business–now how can you compete with Match.com? Sitesearch gives you the advanced features that, instead of taking years to build, take just days to plug in. From better matching to increased speed, Sitesearch will increase your revenue and keep you ahead of the competition.Proven an effective tool to display rich results every time, Sitesearch dramatically increases the number of results for nearly every category of search. With features like “similar-search” and “double-match”, Sitesearch not only provides your users with immediate results, it eliminates the dreaded, zero-result set.
Sitesearch re-indexes your membership data to allow “most-similar” search results, providing users additional results based on their initial criteria. If a user is seeking a male in the 35-40 age group within 10 miles of their zip code, Sitesearch provides a result-set matching the initial criteria, but also intelligently displays most-like results–possibly including someone 34 or 41 years old, or someone living within 11 miles of their zip. Sitesearch’s precision enhances the search quality for any website.
This sounds a lot like what Steve Levine has developed with Transparensee. As an ASP model, Userplane touts the ease of integration. How will dating services feel about sending their precious database across the interweb?
