Article Subject: Online Dating for Nerds: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Postings

Article Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/219333/online_dating_for_nerds_looking_for_love_in_all_the_wrong_postings.html

Article Rating: 4.0 (out of 5)

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Dr. Dato’s Brief:

A fairly chirpy article on two made-up users (Sarah and Alex) who try their hands on several dating sites in the run up to Valentines Day.

The sites they look at consists of Geek2Geek, OtakuBooty, Cupidtino, Sweet on Geeks, OKCupid, Match.com and eHarmony. All are subscription (paid) based sites and prices range from $4/yr to $31/m.

Although Sarah has a different take to Alex, their general impressions were the same when it comes to the usability of the site. Here is a summary of their findings:

Serious daters only - Match, Eharmony
Beautiful people - Cupidtino
Ugly people - Match
Ugly interface - OtakuBooty
Too many quizzes - OKCupid
Youngsters - OKCupid
Best responses - OKCupid, Match
Least responses - Cupidtino

Although the ‘geek’ sites were reviewed for the nerd readers of the post, they found that most people were pretty normal in these sites… how enlightening.

PCWorld dating review of five paid dating sites