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Dating Is Like Throwing Darts

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I received lots of email from people this morning pointing out the New York Times story about Operation Match. Nice feel-good story. PerfectMatch certainly is getting a lot of mileage from Must Love Dogs. What interested me most was that Atlantic Monthly compared...

Defining Online Dating Success

by | Dating Research

Mark Brooks took a stab at measuring the success of online dating. I’ve talked about this before. He asked for comments so here they are: The number is far north of 20 million online daters unless he is limiting his exercise to the US. Include percentages as...

Feb ’06 Dating Site Rankings

by | Marketing

I personally don’t pay much attention to dating and social networking site rankings. I leave that to Hitwise and Comscore. It’s Yahoo, Match, Eharmony, Spark and Friendfinder in the US. Everyone else is fighting for the free and niche eyeballs. For sure,...

Alexaholic

by | Marketing

A while back I created a script for comparing the Alexa ranking of a group of websites. Alexaholic has done the same thing, albeit much nicer looking. Glad to be able to replace my hack with a nicer option. I hear that Alexa is now using dating from sources other than...

Love@AOL Valentine’s Day Survey

by | Dating Research

Hightlights and lowlights: 76% of singles nationwide who use Internet dating sites have met someone special. You have got to be kidding me. The survey found that 16% of singles met their last date online, besting more traditional meeting places like work (15%), bars...