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March 06, 2005
A very basic platform play
Lycos recently launched Dating Search. A new service that tries to go above the fray of all the casual dating sites out there in an attempt at a classic platform play in this most "basic" of categories, scraping data from data come from iMatchup.com, LoveAccess.com, Tickle, True.com, and Lycos' own Matchmaker.com. Will be interesting if it can become a bit more "cross platform" than the rest out there.
Personally (and I am very happily married) I am biased toward PerfectMatch a more differentiated approach, not to finding the best photo for a date this Friday, but to finding the right long term relationship for you (and an Ignition portfolio company).
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Posted by johnza at March 6, 2005 09:50 AM
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I'm no fan of Lycos' dating search engine either. They need to step out of 1998 search technology and realize that feeds are ok for augmenting results but not for generating the best results... Crawler based results are the key.
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at March 16, 2005 05:47 PM
I'm no fan of the dating search engine lycos launched either. They need to get a technology clue and step out of 1998.
Posted by: jasondowdell at March 16, 2005 05:44 PM
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