Archive for the ‘Matchmaking’ Category

be2 Singles Survey

Monday, November 10th, 2008

be2 has been conducting singles surveys amongst the 12 million members of the online matchmaking site for a while now. The results of these singles surveys are too interesting to keep to ourselves, so we would like to share them on the be2 blog- and they get more and more interesting as we think of better questions each time ;-) (more…)

Matchmaking Search Results (2001)

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

What results did a search for matchmaking yield in a search engine in 2001? Obviously, not that many. Online matchmaking wasn’t even a twinkle in online startups’ eyes and there were less websites overall. A search for matchmaking in Google only resulted in 116,000 search results in 2001. The top 10 results are either sites that no longer exist or not quite online matchmaking as we know it today.

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How do we know? Google has built itself a time machine to celebrate its 10th birthday and set up a search engine based on the 2001 index, which you can use to google yourself, Paris Hilton or, should you wish to do so, matchmaking. (more…)