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by Editors of Consumer Reports
by Editors of DatingDame.com
Reviews and user ratings of many online dating sites can be found here. Editors first rate the site and then interview users about their experiences. Pricing and the number of members is included. Separate… lists are maintained for ethnic, niche, regional and international sites. Match.com is the only site to receive a perfect score. Lavalife.com, Nerve.com and Date.com are on the second ratings tier. It's unclear whether this site has been updated recently.
by Bonny Albo
This blog-style landing page links to lots of news and information for those interested in online dating, including reviews of online dating sites. The reviews feature a rating, a brief description of the… site, costs and what's included in the membership, the target audience and what's different and unusual. However, it's not clear if Albo signed up and tested these services herself. (Note that ConsumerSearch and About.com are owned by the same parent company, but are not affiliated editorially.)
by Editors of TopTenReviews.com
The nicest thing about this site is its features-comparison chart, which lets you quickly size up what's offered by each dating website. Individual write-ups include a more detailed discussion of features,… with some comparisons. It appears that the reviewer did take each site for a test drive, filling out the profile and clicking around on each site. No alternative sites are discussed -- this article pretty much covers the big sites only.
by Bonny Albo
Though discussion is brief, Bonny Albo, the About.com Guide to Dating, lists what she considers to be the top six free dating sites. She writes that her picks were "carefully chosen," but criteria aren't… otherwise discussed. The top pick is OkCupid.com, which is a "mix of social networking, compatibility-testing and online dating." Casual Kiss is excellent for younger users with most members under the age of 40. (Note that ConsumerSearch and About.com are owned by the same parent company, but are not affiliated editorially.)
by Bonny Albo
by Editors of VillageMatchmaker.com
by Editors of CupidOnlineDating.com
by Mark Brooks
by Editors of Dating-Overview.com
This website provides reviews and industry news about dating sites around the world, but no recommendations are given. Editors take a look at specialty niches such as international dating, millionaire… dating and mail-order-bride sites. Match.com, OkCupid, EuropeanKiss.org, WineLoversMeet.com and date.ca seem to rank highest. The reviews sometimes sound as if they were written by someone whose native language is not English, and the website appears to originate from the Ukraine.
by Andrew Ryan
by Editors of DatingSitesComparison.com
by Editors of DatingSitesReviews.com
Over 40 online dating sites are briefly profiled by the editors, and also get user ratings on a scale of one to five. Interestingly, eHarmony.com gets one of the lowest scores among users, just 1.5 out of… five stars. The editors' profiles list positive and negative features, costs, relationship types, search parameters and an overview, but don't render any opinions about which sites are best. There are also articles about dating and the latest news in the online dating industry. In addition to the user ratings, most of the dating sites also get a handful of detailed user reviews. Many of these are eye-opening.
by Sarah Kliff
by Joe Tracy and contributors to OnlineDatingMagazine.com
Both Joe Tracy, the publisher of the site, and users rate a few of the major sites. Tracy gives lengthy detailed reviews of six sites, discussing their best feature, most annoying feature and other pros and… cons. eHarmony.com gets the highest rating. Match.com follows. Although the reviews for Match and eHarmony are nearly five years old, the other four sites reviewed have been reviewed in 2008. The user-written reviews are much more recent, but almost half are about eHarmony, which does not do particularly well.
by Sarah Lacy
by Contributors to eDateReview.com
Six dating sites are briefly described, then rated by consumers. Lavalife.com is the top pick of visitors, but with only an average score. Most other sites do poorly as well, and some have hundreds of… comments (eHarmony has more than 1,500 reviews). Most of the recent complaints on Lavalife are about the change in pricing -- moving from a system of buying credits to a monthly membership fee -- and a reconfiguration of the website that limits the use of certain browsers.
by Editors of The-Online-Dating-Reviews.com
by Editors of DatingReviewsFaq.com
by Mark Brooks
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