by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
EHarmony.com Inc. this month received U.S. Patent No. 6,735,568, which describes a “method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship.” Can the elusive art of matchmaking be reduced to equations and databases?...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 24, 2004–eHarmony, the Internet’s fastest growing relationship service, today announced the launch of an extensive new research initiative into marital satisfaction. eHarmony has established a new category...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Eharmony says it rejects thousands of would-be subscribers who indicate they are depressed or have addiction problems. We wondered how long it would be before a service started filtering potential members based on their personality tests. This brings to question the...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Longtime dating expert Julie Spira wrote a piece on HuffPo about a Vanity Fair article, Tinder and the Dawn of “Dating Apocalypse.”. Update: Tinder just lost its mind on Twitter over a Vanity Fair story. Grab the popcorn, this is going to be good. I...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
I wrote When Dating Sites Lie last August when OkCupid got in trouble for manipulating search results and not exactly coming clean to users until after the fact. Jaron Lanier recently discussed whether machine learning systems like Netflix recommendations, Facebook’s...