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Online Dating Website Starts Matchmaking Makeover - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato

Friday, February 25th, 2011

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This post mentions variations of online dating sites that some of our users are astute to but other may not. I will try to clarify the different systems that are used by the various dating sites out there.

Matching System
These types of dating sites usually have a very lengthy questionnaire that users have to fill in before they can register to their site. It’s not something you can skip because it is this very information that the dating sites will use to pass through their dating algorithms in order to match you to other members on the website. Such dating sites include eHarmony, eVow and a host of others.

Search System
These dating sites allow you to go through a very simplified registration process often takes just a few minutes before you can become a member of these sites. Once you are logged in to the dating site, you are free to browse and search for other members on the website. The search criteria can be by location, age, photo and other options which allows you to limit the returned search to your exact needs. Such dating sites include zoosk, bandoo and more.

Hybrid System
This type of dating system does both of the above. Usually the system will allow you to register fairly quick to the website and you can go to a section where you can also find your matches that has been delivered by the matching algorithm of the site. To get the best results you need to plugin as much information about yourself into the system through their pages like ‘Edit Profile’ or ‘Update Profile’. Such dating sites include Plentyoffish, Jumpdates, Datehookup and more. Some of these sites will deliver your matches via an emil such as Jumpdates.

Hopefully this will help our readers to appreciate the kind of technology that goes on behind the scenes. Watch this space for more information on this subject.

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The things to come in online dating - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

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This is an independent post on the subject of what we can expect to see in the online dating scene in the coming years ahead.

The shape of the online industry has changed over the last decade with the birth of match.com, eharmony and some of the free dating sites such as plentyoffish.com, jumpdates.com, okCupid etc.

Today a majority of these sites have a rich set of features which makes online dating more easier to use than before. We don’t have any of the clunky features many years back on search, instant messaging and other communication tools. The years ahead will provide some exciting features to the end user as well as providing increased challenges to the dating company. Technology is fashioning our lifestyle to such a degree that our expectations are correspondingly higher and thus online dating companies will have to be more creative and innovating to meet the demands of its end user.

Although match technology has been around with us for a while it has not worked sufficiently well for us to feel completely enamored by it. This area will need drastic improvements. Take Google for example, under the hood of the largest search engine in the world, Google is examining human behavior at atomistic levels and this equally needs to be translated to the online dating front. In the future our ’search results’ will be almost humanistically correct to the degree where we can assume AI (artificial intelligence) has finally been born. A barely unheard of company that started in the mid 90s doing data-mining is now one of the fastest growing companies in the world, the company is called Autonomy. They simply are parsing data at a much more intelligent level and this is what we need to do for any types of website that makes use of data. The important point is that we need to convert and make sense of this data in a humanistic way and this implies building highly efficient AI systems and algorithms that we are only scraping through today.