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4single.net

4single.net is a free-of-charge social networking and dating website, which in addition also offers features including user-generated content such as blogging and member-created profiles. 4single.net is free dating websites. has 15,000 registered members. members are offered free emailing, and video chat.

Adult FriendFinder

Adult FriendFinder (AFF) is an online sex and swinger personals community website. It allows members to meet friends or sex partners. The site was founded by Andrew Conru (aka Andrew Conreux). It is consistently ranked between the 40th and 60th most visited website on the internet, and claims to have over 20 million members. Originally started as FriendFinder, a more traditional online dating site, Adult FriendFinder was spun off when members began uploading more risque photos than were appropriate. FriendFinder has since spun off several other communities focusing on more specific segments.

Chemistry.com

Chemistry.com is an online dating service. It is a sister site of Match.com and was established by a team who worked for the company. The site's policies involve pairing members specifically for long-term relationships using methods it refers to as "compatibility" and "chemistry", hence its namesake. Chemistry.com's matching algorithm was designed by Dr. Helen Fisher, an anthropology professor and scholar, and features interviews and contributions from her along with her blog, "The Nature of Love". The website became notable after several ads portrayed online daters who were rejected by eHarmony, including one which featured a gay man, highlighting the fact that EHarmony will not match people with individuals of the same gender.

eHarmony

eHarmony is a venture capital-funded, personality-oriented matchmaking website. The company advertises through television and the Internet and requires users to complete a detailed compatibility questionnaire.

Flirtomatic

Flirtomatic is a social networking website based in Soho, London, UK that sets itself apart from other such sites through its cross-platform strategy. Users have the opportunity to meet new people and make friends within the context of a flirting environment. The flirtatious nature of the site strongly distinguishes it from other social networking websites and is forming a new model for up-and-coming competitors in the UK and abroad. Features include an online chat facility, personal profiles, photos, and videos. Flirtomatic also offer a viral video game, FlirtQuest. Users make public challenges for other users to film and submit.

FriendFinder

FriendFinder is a site for dating, romance, marriage and love with 30 million active members worldwide. FriendFinder owns a number of other similar sites, such as Adult FriendFinder and Cams.com. The FriendFinder Network was founded in 1996 and is privately owned. The corporate headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California. Friendfinder, Inc.'s different websites have a total worldwide membership of more than 100 million people. A little known fact is that these sites are owned by Penthouse Magazine. This has been a recently discussed issue since they started BigChurch.com, a Christians based website.

Friends Asia

Friends Asia is owned by Friends Asia Pte Ltd, a company registered in the Republic of Singapore. It is a free online dating service for Asians and people who would like to meet Asians. The website has various features for its members to search for suitable partners. Members can create their own profiles and upload their own photos. There are various search functions which members can use to search for their prospective partners according to their preferences. Members can contact other members privately by sending them messages.

Lifeknot

lifeknot is a social networking website with a focus on shared interests and hobbies. It was founded in November 2003 by Matt Muro, is based in Boston, MA and is privately owned. The site has been noted twice in the Times Online, Get clicking with a like-minded stranger, Social whirl online; the Gothamist, Lifeknot: The New Online Meeting Place; the Denver Post, Internet hookups lead to recreation - and romance[4]; and the Boston Herald.

Match.com

Match.com is an online dating service. The company reportedly has more than 15 million members and Web sites serving 37 countries in more than 12 different languages. Its headquarters is in Dallas, Texas and the company also has offices in London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Munich, Stockholm, Madrid. Match.com is owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp and employs more than 340 people worldwide. Match.com's nearly $350 million in revenue and 1.35 million paying subscribers place it atop the industry.

Matchmaker.com

Matchmaker.com is an internet (and, prior to the internet, dial-up) dating service. It was founded in 1986, making it the oldest of the current online dating sites. From 2000 to January 2006, it was run by Lycos. In January 2006, it was purchased by Date.com. Matchmaker.com aligns members into one of several demographic or geographic communities, with only limited communication between members of different communities.

Mysinglefriend.com

mysinglefriend.com is a UK online dating site which claims to have over 180,000 users (Oct 2007). One of the original founders was Sarah Beeny, a popular TV presenter on Channel 4. Launched in October 2005, the site has grown in popularity through viral marketing and media interest. The unique selling point of the site is that dating profiles can be created not only by the user but also by third parties, the idea being that you can sign up your friends. Where a profile is created by a third party, it must be reviewed by the user before it appears on the site: a third party can not sign a user up without their consent.

OUTeverywhere

OUTeverywhere (also known simply as OUT and formerly OUTintheUK) is a website providing an online lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, chiefly in the UK, although it has members worldwide. The site provides member profiles with picture galleries, private messages, discussion boards and online chat. The community also organises offline events, such as coffee or cocktail outings, sporting events and day trips.

OkCupid

OkCupid is a free-of-charge social networking and dating website, which in addition also offers features including user-generated content such as blogging and member-created quizzes. OkCupid users are presented with questions (most of which are authored and submitted by members) about various topics such as politics and tastes page by page, and given a list of up to four answers per question to choose from. They are also asked "How would your Ideal Match answer this question?", and then "How important is their answer to you?", with degrees of importance for the latter listed as "irrelevant", "a little important", "somewhat important", "very important", and "mandatory", each respectively assigned a greater numerical value. The site uses the numerical values to calculate "friend", "enemy", and "match" percentages between any two members of the site based on how many answered questions those two users have in common (referred to as their "intersection"), with higher intersections supposedly producing more accurate percentages.

Perfectmatch.com

Perfectmatch.com is an online dating and relationship service based in Seattle, Washington. The company reports “it is the best approach for adults seeking successful, lasting relationships.” The company offers the Duet Total Compatibility System (Duet), co-developed by Seattle relationship expert, Dr. Pepper Schwartz who based Duet on more than 30 years of research. Duet is modeled after the Myers-Briggs test.

PlentyofFish

PlentyofFish is a free online dating service. The founder and sole operator, 29-year-old Markus Frind, runs the site from his 83-square-metre Vancouver apartment. The site pulls in more than $5 million a year from Google advertising.

True

True is an online dating service that was founded in 2003 by entrepreneur Herb Vest. Its original name was TrueBeginnings.com, but the company felt that this name was too limiting, as company leadership wanted to expand the company into other markets one day. In 2004 the domain name True.com was purchased and the company changed its name. True is known for its strict policies regarding background checks, which are used to ensure that members are not felons or married. Vest reports 16 million total members, as of May 2007 but it is unclear how many of them are actual paying or active members. Of that, an independent analysis shows an estimated 3.8 million unique visits to the site per month.

Yahoo! Personals

Yahoo! Personals is an online dating service provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Personals editions are designed in local languages. Contacting a member through Yahoo! Personals requires a paid subscription to Yahoo! Personals.