by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing
Found this about Alexa while looking at different VOIP clients today: Alexa does not calculate the actual number of users visiting Web sites… what we do instead is release raw data about how many people in a sample population (Alexa Toolbar users, among others)...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Today I was greeted by a survey page at Match.com. It had one question. “How likely is it that you would recommend Match.com to a friend?” In Firefox on the Mac, the page is cut off. Perhaps there were more questions? Of all the questions you would think...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
Jeremy Wright says Myspace scares the hell out of him. He lays down a few choice comparisons and points I want to riff on. According to Wright, by the end of the year, MySpace will account for roughly 10% of all web traffic and, by the end of 2006 (if growth and...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Seed.com is taking Chemistry.com for a test ride and reporting the their search for Ms. Right and Mr. Right in ongoing blog-style entries. According to their female sacrificial lamb, Chemistry makes breaking up easy. You don’t have to give your date the bad news...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Traffic up 8%, pricing $59, 16,000 marriages, $80 million ad spend. IPO planned. Eharmony has stopped mentioning the number of paying members and instead publishes the number of monthly visitors as the metric. Lame but understandable as their growth has flattened out...