Online Personals Watch analyzes the trend of internet dating industry. 90% of the top free dating sites in the USA and UK moved up rankings from May to December 2008. The most interesting feature of the new sites are the ranking system based upon the the profiles of people in real life. If a person posts fake photograph or profile other users can place them in lower rank. Users can rate 1 star to 5 star. The 1 star means “not even close” and 5 stars mean “true to life.”
InterActive Corporation (IAC), owner of popular dating sites Match.com and Chemistry.com recently launched free dating sites like DownToEarth.com. The venture is to compete with other popular free dating site Plenttyoffish.com by oneman.com. Another free dating site DowntoEarth.com was started by Jacob Solotaroff.
The top 5 free dating sites in USA are:
#1 Plentyoffish (#2 overall in the internet dating category in Dec ‘09, #2 in May ‘09)
#2 Adam4Adam (#5 overall in Dec, #6 in May)
#3 Date Hookup (#6 overall in Dec, #7 in May)
#4 OKCupid (#12 overall in Dec, #14 in May)
#5 Mingle2 (#13 overall in Dec, not in top 100 in May)
Source: Techcrunch
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