The purpose of the DateNation site is to make it as easy as possible for you to meet people, using the power of the internet. At DateNation, you'll find a community of people using the site as a tool to make connections and find partners for dating, romance, friendship, and a variety of encounters. To find your match, we offer several powerful features, which allow you to narrow your search so that you are able to find exactly the kind of person you, are looking for. On various occasions, we also add new features to make your time at DateNation a successful and fun experience.

DateNation offers a variety of membership packages. Standard membership is free. As a Standard member, you can chat, send instant messages, and browse through our worldwide database of profiles. You also have access to our interactive Magazine, where you can post or answer advice questions or post poetry and articles. There's plenty to do as a standard member! If you decide you want to speed up your search, consider one of our premium memberships. Premium memberships offer far more privileges and cost as little as 25 cents (or less!) per day.

It's a totally free matching service. It's also extremely accurate, as long as (a) you're honest, and (b) you know what you want. We don't claim to evaluate you perfectly, but we do claim to find someone who claims to fulfill your claimed requirements, exactly. We firmly believe that most matching sites are just personals services; their "matching" systems are nonexistent or overly subjective.

While we have a small team here, we all take math (and all that math implies) very seriously. OkCupid is a fun project for us for a variety of reasons, only one of which is the actual content. We aim to be the best matching service on every front: superior technology, better math, better psychology. And of course, it's free, unlike all the others.

PlatinumRomance.com is a great dating site. The “Cupid’s Intro� feature will send an introductory email to several people that match the new member’s profile. Find a hot date in your city today. We bring singles together. We bring people together. Start your free trial today and find that special someone! Create a new romance in under 2 minutes.

Wealthy Men is the one and only online personals site dedicated to those men & women seeking a higher caliber online dating experience.
5 Great Reasons to Join WealthyMen

1. Women now can join a personals site with successful men who make over $100k a year.
2. Men receive many more emails from women than from any other dating site.
3. Men are verified using our patented WM Verification System.
4. Our sophisticated user interface makes checking messages & browsing new members a snap.
5. Wealthymen.com is the only online dating arena where woman out number men 10-1, 24/7, 365 days a year.  

Play Date is one of the most innovative and fastest-growing always-on chat service in US, Europe and Latin America.

What makes Play Date a leading product in the chat and dating market is the perfect mix between mobile web, text messaging and video experience. The product present itself as a chat but subscribers can navigate profiles, send message and enrich their own profile in a always-on environment. Through the SMS push mechanism, subscribers are also able to contact their mates without waiting them to be online checking their messages.

The service, based on a unique match-making mechanism able to provide the best user experience, is accessible to the final user at $9.99 per month, which is a very low price compared to the other dating services in the American market. Currently, a promo for all subscribers is available and new subscribers will have 1 week or 20 messages for free.

Top 10 reasons to join JDate:

1. JDate is the #1 way to jump-start your love life! No more wasting precious time…
…and no more blind-date blahs! Whether you're simply looking to have a great time, seeking a serious relationship or are returning to the dating scene after some time away, JDate is the place for you. We're here to help you meet wonderful people for wonderful relationships: romance, friendships and more. And however full your life is now, it'll be even better once you’re tuned into this social scene. JDate is fun, laid-back and comfortable.

2. Take part in one of the world’s greatest online communities.
We're very proud of our members: smart, attractive, successful people from all walks of life, all professions and all ages, living life to its fullest. They’re all looking to connect, network and find romance! JDate has hundreds of thousands of members worldwide and is one of the few personals sites around that boasts a nearly perfect 50:50 male-to-female ratio.

3. This is WAY better than the bar scene.
JDate is more interesting and considerably less expensive than the bar scene. For the price of a few drinks, you can subscribe for a month and meet a new person every day if you like. You can also get to know people and what they're looking for before you contact them, thanks to detailed profiles with photos, essays and all kinds of personal tidbits.

4. A tradition of connecting Jewish singles – 21st Century style!
Established in 1997, JDate has been the premier online Jewish personals community for nearly a decade. We're the modern way for Jewish people to find love. Check out our Mazel Tov section to see hundreds of couples who met and got married thanks to JDate. In fact, you probably have friends and family who are JDate success stories! Why not be one of them? All you have to do is take the first step and become a Premium Member.

5. Expand your social circle.
Meet people from around the corner or around the world! JDate makes it easy to get to know people you might not otherwise meet. Just think, without JDate you could walk past your soul mate every day and never even know it.

6. Save beaucoup bucks ($$ bling-bling $$).
JDate makes meeting new people quick, easy, and inexpensive. One month's Premium Membership costs less than a night on the town and delivers the people you WANT to meet, WHEN you want to meet them. With over half-a-million fabulous members, there's someone for everyone to meet – and that definitely includes you!

7. More members. More parties. More travel and events.
We throw some of the largest and most popular Jewish events and offer travel adventures to many of the world’s most desirable vacation spots. We provide our members with many, many opportunities to get out there and have a great time.

8. It's not all about looks. It's how you feel and who you are.
JDate helps you express what you’re all about – your passions, sense of humor, and values – better than chats over cocktails ever could. Common interests are the building blocks for the best relationships. Let the real you shine and likeminded members will take notice.

9. Meet, greet and kick up your feet!
Our secure online server makes dating at JDate anonymous and safe, so you're free to sit back, relax and meet people from the comfort of your home or office, any time of day or night.

10. The JDate Team is always available.
Our mission is to make sure you're successful. Friendly and knowledgeable assistance any time, day or night. JDate Consultants are here 24/7 to answer your questions and help you find who you're looking for. The first step is up to you. Why not expand your social scene, explore new possibilities and enjoy exciting adventures? JDate is where it happens.

Mate1 is one of the hottest dating sites on the internet - and totally FREE for women! Mate seekers can meet hot singles in their area instantly.There are a number of things you can do to improve your chances of getting noticed on Mate1.


ADD A PHOTO! We can’t emphasize this enough. Members with photos get 10 times more responses.

ADD A VOICE PROFILE. Members with voice profiles get 8-10 times more responses.

BECOME A FULL MEMBER to get top ranking in search results.

Make sure you’ve filled out every section of the profile questionnaire, especially your personal essays and tastes.

Try making the first move: send an e-mail, voice mail or instant message to another member.

JLove is devoted to preserving Jewish values and keeping the essence of Jewish unity alive. They are committed to winning the hearts and minds of the global Jewish community and to do so JLove is dedicated to delivering the most outstanding service possible.

JLove.com is where Jewish love begins. Since its birth in early 2006, JLove has quickly become the fastest growing online Jewish relationship destination. They are committed to preserving Jewish tradition by bringing Jewish singles together. They want to help you find romance.

JLove is a private club exclusively for Jewish singles looking to find a serious, traditional relationship. Their customer service team is extremely aggressive when it comes to enforcing these terms.

From the beginning, JLove has focused on creating the most advanced features of any online personals site. Today they offer high quality video chat, scientific personality profiling and a revolutionary real-time alerting system that instantly notifies JLove members when new messages are sent from potential dates.

Great Expectations.com With nearly 30 years of experience in helping people find true love, They have a distinct advantage over newcomers to the industry. And in order to ensure a safer dating experience, They:

Screen and validate vital information
Meet every member face to face
Maintain current photographs and videos that accurately represent your potential dates

Once you have decided it’s time to make a change in your social situation, all you need to do is contact us. As a member, you will have access to a team of relationship professionals and thousands of member profiles. Also, you will receive invitations to Great Expectations parties and events exclusive to members. The people you will meet are single and live in your area. Our state-of-the-art matching system, combined with our compassionate team members will help put you in your desired relationship quickly. The quality of service and attention to detail we provide is unparalleled in the dating industry.

Serious about dating? So are we. Great Expectations Dating.

Are you meeting the wrong people online?

Matchmaker used to be divided into many small communities based on geography, religion, age and interest. They have opened up the database so that you are now part of a much larger, global network of singles. Now it is easier to find singles who are right for you.

In addition, because Matchmaker is powered by online dating leader, Date.com, you have the ability to interact with the millions of singles from Matchmaker and the millions more from Date.

Webdate.com encourages you to use your webcam to communicate. You can see who is on there webcam and is ready to chat. It has a free sign-up and Free SMS alerts. You can date from your mobile phone.
Check out these WebDate.com Vidoes for fun from http://video.webdate.com/:

Deelicious
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Parts is Parts
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Dirty Shame
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Waxedhttp://video.webdate.com/downloads/waxed.wmv

Little Big Love
http://video.webdate.com/downloads/littlebiglove.wmv

Beach Bummer
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Big Spender
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Tip Included
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Pyscho
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Cougar
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Gay.com Personals is a free service that allows members to post personal ads or profiles and run searches among more than 1.8 million profiles. Receiving responses to your personal ad is totally free, as is responding to members who have replied to your profile.

Gay.com Premium Personals offers many advanced features, including replying to any member profile, bookmarking and blocking of profiles, getting access to all photos (public and private) and much more. Only Premium Personals subscribers have access to adult content.

Easyflirt is one of the most important dating website, with millions of members seeking different things : love stories, new pleasures, or just friendship...

Equal what you are looking for, you will find it on EasyFlirt.com !

To answer any of your desires, which, according to the moments can be brought to change, EasyFlirt places at your disposal 3 sections:

The first section called « love », is for the people who would like to have a real love story

the second one, called « sexy », is for the members who would like to share new pleasures, alone or with multiple partners, to live the excitement of a one night stand ;

and the « gay » section, men to men

Of course, you can register on several sections.

EasyFlirt has been created with an aim of making it easy for anyone to find the appropriate partner. As soon as you are registered, you have several possibilities.

A private messenger, which allows you to send and receive text messages.
A chat, giving you the possibility to discuss live with the other connected members
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The vision for DatingDisciples.com was a result of prayer. After seeking God in prayer and asking God, “How may I serve you Lord and impact millions of people for Christ,� founder Michael Price was blessed with this wonderful vision of a Christian Online Dating Service unlike any other. It’s focus is on being the right person by growing in Christ and through the many biblically based features of DatingDisciples.com so that the members may then be blessed with the right person. To learn more about the vision, please go to www.datingdisciples.com . In the lower right hand corner, double click on the “vision� link to hear it in audio.

DatingDisciples.com is focused on helping you to improve your relationship with God during your search for that special someone:

They seek the Lord! It is their commitment to God and to you that they are constantly seeking the Lord for His guidance for DatingDisciples.com - through prayer, through the wisdom of many godly advisors, and by striving to live lives pleasing to God ourselves.

They pray for you. Every week they have a dedicated Prayer Team that meets over the phone on a conference call to specifically pray for DatingDisciples.com members, for the website, staff, and for all aspects of DatingDisciples.com.
They care about you. They value you as family, and they want God to mightily bless you!

They encourage you to pray over every area of your life, including your search for that special someone. They help you to do that through the use of their forums, by giving you the ability to post prayer requests and praise reports.
They have a strict Code of Conduct that encourages you to live God’s way according to the Bible, and steers you away from living the “world’s way�.

The features of their site have been fine tuned so that they also encourage you to live God’s way according to the Bible, and steer you away from living the “world’s way�. It is Their belief and their commitment to you that the features of their site always honor God. If you ever find a feature that is questionable or that you feel is not in line with this belief, please let them know. They will pray about it, look into it, and address your concerns because they value all ways they can improve in Christ!

*They have unique features that put the Word of God right at your fingertips, such as a Bible search, audio sermons, audio scriptures and sermons set to music, scripture e-cards you can send other members & even non-members, and forums.
*They have a unique referral program that allows you to keep your membership free by referring new members to their website.
*They welcome your suggestions by providing you with a suggestions section.

True.com are committed to providing a safer, smarter way you to find your soul mate. Through a unique blend of science, technology and personalized attention, they'll guide you through the process of finding and keeping lasting love.


Find your true love — Take their free TRUE Compatibility Test™ and get an amazingly accurate profile of yourself. Endorsed by Psychology Today, this test identifies 99 distinct factors found in successful relationships. You'll learn more about yourself, plus you'll be that much closer to finding your special someone.


Safety first — they're the only leading online relationship site that screens all communicating members against one of the largest criminal records databases on the Internet.


Chat it up — Communication is key to developing and maintaining relationships. TRUE email and chat rooms – with video chat and private chat – offer subscribers a great way to get to know one another before taking it to the next level.


Learn the secrets to love — True U magazine and our profile guru are great ways to learn and laugh about love and relationships.


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Lavalife (or Webpersonals until 2001) stands alone among online dating sites. The most notable feature of Lavalife is the fact that registration is free and there are no monthly fees. This is because most contact with other members of the site requires the use of credits. As a free member, you can reply to messages and view videos, but sending emails or instant messages require expending credits.


The credits do allow substantial time for communications, however. The first email message is six credits, and all subsequent messages to the same recipient are free. Six credits buy a twenty minute instant messaging session, and twelve credits buy an hour. Two credits will extend your chat time by five minutes.
Lavalife allows great flexibility in match searches. There is no compatibility profile, as is in many online dating sites, so the user is forced to use their own judgment to make a match. Users can search for friendships, long-term relationships or casual encounters. When coordinating a casual encounter, there are several options to narrow the search, including blindfolds, spankings and aggressiveness.

Again, unique to Lavalife, is the ability to hide or change your profile name. You can also log in without an active profile name, allowing you to chat in a hidden mode. This would allow the user to “start over� after meeting an undesirable match.

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SinglesNet.com is among the easiest dating sites in terms of navigation and use, and the capability to create custom chat rooms make communication with other members private and fun. Although there are relatively few features, the volume of members makes finding compatible matches a near certainty.

Unlike some sites, removing your profile is very easy: simply clicking “remove� in the account settings automatically removes your profile.

 

PlentyofFish.com is completely free, which is quite surprising. The site has as many features and quality users as other commercial sites. PlentyofFish.com is very easy to use, and has a lot of users, making it a seemingly great place to get a good catch.

Using the built in filtering functions, you can chat with members in your region, either city, state, country or world. There is no commitment with signup, which makes PlentyofFish.com a great place to start your search.

Perfectmatch.com was designed to compete with eHarmony.com, and claims to be the fastest growing dating site on the internet. Founded in 2002 by a team of relationship experts, and with the compatibility system co-created by Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Perfectmatch.com has achieved quick fame due to appearances in films such as “Must Love Dogs� and “Superman Returns�, as well as endorsements by Dr. Phil and Regis and Kelley.

Perfectmatch.com features the Duet® Total Compatibility system, which Dr. Schwartz claims to be the result of 30 years of research on relationships and compatibility. This is similar to the evaluation methods used by eHarmony, with one key difference: while eHarmony will only display users that their system feels is an appropriate match, perfectmatch.com will display the recommended matches but allow the option of browsing based on their on user-selected criteria.

OkCupid.com a totally free matching service. It's also extremely accurate, as long as (a) you're honest, and (b) you know what you want. They don't claim to evaluate you perfectly, but they do claim to find someone who claims to fulfill your claimed requirements, exactly. They firmly believe that most matching sites are just personals services; their "matching" systems are nonexistent or overly subjective. While they have a small team there, they all take math (and all that math implies) very seriously.

OkCupid is a fun project for them for a variety of reasons, only one of which is the actual content. They aim to be the best matching service on every front: superior technology, better math, better psychology. And of course, it's free, unlike all the others

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MyCountryMatch.com. The staff behind MyCountryMatch.com have been involved in building online communities since the late 1980s, even before the introduction of the World Wide Web.

Many of their single friends complained to them about the typical online dating site - telling us all kinds of stories of people playing games: fake profiles, serial daters and a basic lack of trust.

The single women they talked to felt as if they had appeared on an outside billboard ad on a major freeway when they posted their profile on some of the biggest dating sites. Any user could search and read their intimate thoughts - even married co-workers who just browsed the site. They knew there had to be a better way to help nice single adults find friendship and a chance for romance in a fun and safe environment.

Welcome to MyCountryMatch.com - Where down-to-earth single people meet. This site was launched in December of 2003. They've developed all of the code, content and design for this site themselves. It is a labor of love and will continue to evolve as they add new features and functions requested by their members.


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MatchClick.com was designed to be powerful and easy to use. The setup process is fast, although not very thorough. One unique feature of this site is the integration with MSN messenger and ICQ. This makes it very easy to communicate with other users.

MatchClick.com also features polls, horoscopes and other content, making it well worth the price.

Match.com was founded in 1993 by Gary Kremen (The entrepreneur who gained notoriety by being the first to register the domain name sex.com in 1994), and was one of the first online dating sites in the world.

In 1994, Guinness World Records named Match.com as the largest dating site in the world with 42 million members up to that time, and 15 million active members at that time.

Currently, match.com offices operate over 6 continents and maintains 30 regional dating sites.

LoveCompass.com merges online and real-world dating. Your profile available worldwide on the site, and optionally, locally via local dating service.

Although LoveCompass.com is based in Australia, it maintains servers in the U.S. for quick access to American singles. The site is easy to use and features a one page signup procedure.

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iMatchup.com Although the site is relatively successful with 3 million members, there is little that is unique about the site. The main draw seems to be the number of users, which in itself is not extraordinary.

The site itself is relatively easy to navigate, and the matches seem to be of a slightly higher quality than other sites, so it is worth checking out.

 

FriendFinder.com is the top level site of a group of specialized FriendFinder sites. The FriendFinder community includes AdultFriendFinder.com, GayFriendFinder.com, JewishFriendFinder.com, BigChurch.com and more.

FriendFinder encourages participation in its site and community activities by awarding points for referring friends, voting on articles (in the member-written FriendFinder online magazine), signing up for affiliate sites and more. These points can be used to upgrade your account, highlight your listing and more.

FriendFinder also maintains a social networking element. Similar to MySpace, users are able to map their friendships and relationships, as well as network with other members with similar interests.

Before purchasing an upgrade plan, it is important to decide what you require as far as service and searching options. For instance, the gold plan is more expensive than the silver plan, but includes faster customer service and improved searching options.

eHarmony.com was established in 2000 by Dr. Neil Clark Warren, an evangelical Christian, and heavily promoted on James Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio show. This relationship continued until 2005, when eHarmony.com sought to publicly distance itself from Dobson’s group in order to increase its public appeal.

eHarmony.com is intended for the estimated 20% of online daters seeking a long term relationship. It is with this goal in mind, and based on his claims of 35 years’ research into successful marriages, that Dr. Warren established his 436 part profile (plus fields for additional information if desired), which collects information on age, ethnicity, religious affiliation, previous marital status and family status.

Unlike many other online dating services, users are not allowed to browse profiles and make their own selections. Instead, eHarmony will arrange the potential matches. This is designed to make users rely on the scientific method and eliminate elements of human error. In early 2006, eHarmony unveiled its marriage program, designed to assist married couples in strengthening or repairing their marriage. This is similar in many ways to the singles program, except that the couple each takes a personality questionnaire covering such topics as romance, sex and communication. There is also a 12 video series available, addressing common marriage issues.

Date.com was founded on Valentines Day of 1997 and has proven to be very successful, with 50 marriages last year alone, and 250,000 members added every month. Perhaps accounting for this popularity is the wide range of search options: you can search for matches using over 100 optional search criteria.


The only major flaw in the Date.com system is the relative few compatibility analysis categories. Whereas many sites allow you to specify hobbies, interests, religion, etc, Date.com only collects the most basic information. However, there are several text fields which allow users to answer open ended questions about their personality.

Another strength for Date.com is the user friendly navigation. All of the user controls are placed right on the user Home Page, allowing easy navigation for searches and account administration. Also, customer support is among the best with a substantial FAQ and fast email responses.

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The CyberSuitors.com matching system is centered around the CQ (Compatibility Quotient) test, developed by eminent psychologist Dr Glenn Wilson. This is the only compatibility test featured that has been accepted by a peer-reviewed trade journal (sexual and relationship therapy magazine, 2003).


The CyberSuiters.com system allows you to narrow the results by preferences, and will display the remaining matches based on the results of your CQ test.


The greatest strength of CyberSuitors.com is the intuitive interface. The site is very easy to understand, and the intuitive interface makes it very easy to navigate.

Unlike the other sites reviewed here, Craigslist.org is not specifically a dating site. Instead, it is a fully-featured online personals section run as a non-profit organization.

Craigslist.com was initially created to list events local to San Francisco, but quickly expanded to include such categories as personals ads and auto sales. This was the extent of Craigslist.org until January 2000, when current CEO Jim Buckmaster was hired as lead programmer and CTO. Under his leadership, the site layout was redone, self-posting was added, and the site expanded to a multi-city architecture.

Craigslist.org has insisted on remaining banner free (Aside from an April fools joke in 2002) and free for use, only charging employers to post help wanted ads.

Despite its many benefits and devotees, Craigslist.org has not avoided all controversies. In 2005, Craigslist.org was accused of encouraging overbreeding and irresponsible sales of pit-bulls for allowing breeders to post ads on the site. Also, Craigslist.org was sued in February 2006 by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for allegedly allowing users to post ads for homes that allegedly violate the fair housing act. The outcome has not yet been announced.

Craigslist.org cooperated with police in matters stemming from the casual encounters section. There have been several stings and arrests for prostitution charges. While Craigslist.org states that they can not and will not police the site, but they allow users to flag offending posts for administrative review.

Mingles.com was founded in 1997, and first went online on September 21, 1998. Since then we've been responsible for countless dates, friendships, and romances. The best part of what we do is hearing about the many friendships, relationships, and even marriages that have occured between Mingles members.

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The staff behind MyCountryMatch.com have been involved in building online communities since the late 1980s, even before the introduction of the World Wide Web.

Many of their single friends complained to us about the typical online dating site - telling them all kinds of stories of people playing games: fake profiles, serial daters and a basic lack of trust.

The single women they talked to felt as if they had appeared on an outside billboard ad on a major freeway when they posted their profile on some of the biggest dating sites. Any user could search and read their intimate thoughts - even married co-workers who just browsed the site. We knew there had to be a better way to help nice single adults find friendship and a chance for romance in a fun and safe environment.
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The philosophy behind CoolIntros.com is that they will do the introduction, then you will do the rest. There are few questions during the profile setup, instead CoolIntros relies on twenty questions that they call “Deal Breakers�, factors that will cause two people to be incompatible. For instance, the site will not match someone that wants a family with someone who does not.

After setting your preferences, all searches will be filtered by your preferences. This is designed to get rid of all the “clutter�, and only show you matches that are compatible.

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BlackPeopleMeet (Commonly referred to as “BPM�) was founded in 2000 specifically to cater to the African American community. However, any race is able to join.

Online customer reviews range from glowing to scathing, mostly relating to the quality of matches. This is not surprising, however, given the popularity and relative low cost of the site. This means that there will be a far greater amount of high-quality and low-quality matches.

Although registration for the site is free, which allows browsing and basic searching, all other site functions can only be accessed by paid members. With this limitation, BPM can be considered a pay site.

MetroDate.com is among the most user friendly online dating sites in existence. However, perhaps the most striking (and certainly the most unique) feature is the integrating nightlife assistance. This allows users to look up events, restaurants and travel in an area, as well as view current weather reports.

The site is also well laid out, with a well designed and intuitive layout, it is easy to understand and navigate. The secondary features of the site also function flawlessly, to include the chat and message boards.

Overall, there is a definite feeling of “fun� about the site, which permeates not only the layout, but the profiles as well.

CupidJunction.com, in many ways, is very similar to most dating sites. However, they offer a separate paid feature called “Live Dating Pro� that causes the site to stand out from the crowd. Live Dating Pro matches the user with a live relationship expert that is on call via email and chat to offer dating advice and tips.

The site itself is very easy to navigate, has a strong matching analysis. To back it up, all matches display a match percentage, to make it easier to determine your compatibility.

Yahoo Personals is one of the oldest modern dating sites in existence. Until recently, it was a completely free service, but currently only the searches are free. In order to contact a member, it is necessary to create a premium account.

Unlike the previous dating services, Yahoo Personals does not offer scientific personality analysis, but instead relies on user input.

On Sep 22, 2006, Yahoo Personals teamed up with match.com to service the UK and Ireland, creating the UK’s largest dating service.

Chemistry.com, a spin-off of Match.com, was founded with the same scientific foundation as eharmony.com. The philosophy behind chemistry.com is that, although people tend to be attracted to those with similar interests and beliefs, those connections tend to become platonic rather than romantic.
Chemistry.com has pioneered a technique combining compatibility and chemistry.

To do this, Chemistry.com starts of with an in depth personality profile (called the “chemistry profile�) to give you (and chemistry.com) an idea of your personality traits, what you desire in a mate and who you would likely fall in love with. You are then matched with singles who would compliment your personality traits, and with whom you would be a likely successful match.

If you agree with Chemistry.com’s suggestions, and find someone that interests you, you can send out a “first-meeting� request, which relies on the site to coordinate a first date. After the date, you will be asked to provide feedback on your date. This allows chemistry.com to review their matching process and constantly improve their system.

This merging of science and compatibility has resulted in hundreds of thousands of successful matches for matches.

AmericanSingles.com has been on the scene since the inception of online dating, and boasts tens of thousands of singles online every day. Although the name would seem to imply that the site is only for Americans, there are a number of users from other countries. The majority of members, however, are American.

One of the site’s greatest features is the historical information that is made available to the user. As a member, you are able to see who you have viewed in the past, who has viewed you, who has saved (“hot listed�) your profile and the exchange of one line “teases�.

One unique feature of AmericanSingles is that it allows access to the chat room to both members and non-members. You can also start your own chat room. The only major flaw in the chat room is that it is unmoderated and has a tendency to get overcrowded. To further the potential confusion, chat room users are able to highlight text and change font colors, which can make the chat difficult to read.

AmericanSingles seems genuinely interested in helping members find quality matches. From its easy to use interface and open ended communications system to its’ exhaustive advice section, AmericanSingles rates among the best of the net.