Dr. Helen Fisher NYT articles about "Changing the Dating Game for the Better"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/well/mind/dating-coronavirus-love-relationships.html
 
Dr. Helen Fisher: "The Brain Is The Best Algorithm" ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/01/dr-helen-fisher-brain-is-best-algorithm.html

Tinder will launch in-app video chats
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/05/tinder-will-launch-in-app-video-chats.html


The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  
 
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five normative model or the HEXACO normative model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the normative 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
 
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.    
 

Dr. Helen Fisher: "The Brain Is The Best Algorithm" ???

The famous love expert on the secret of long-term couples and the pitfalls of online dating.

https://kurier.at/freizeit/leben-liebe-sex/helen-fisher-das-gehirn-ist-der-beste-algorithmus/400714671

ABOUT Science of Love series presents Helen Fisher, ‘leading expert on love and attraction’
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/10/about-science-of-love-series-presents.html


During December 2004, Dr. Helen Fisher was contacted by the people from Match to create Chemistry, the last innovation at Match, a compatibility matching method.

Please remember: the Chemistry personality test designed by Dr. Helen Fisher during 2004 is IPSATIVE, and not NORMATIVE.
It is only useful for entertainment purposes.
IPSATIVE TESTS ARE OBSOLETE!!!

 
The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/mistakes-at-behavioral-economics-of.html

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

ABOUT Science of Love series presents Helen Fisher,

‘leading expert on love and attraction’
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2017/10/9/science-love-series-presents-helen-fisher-leading-/

During December 2004, Dr. Helen Fisher was contacted by the people from Match to create Chemistry, the last innovation at Match, a compatibility matching method.

Please remember: the Chemistry personality test designed by Dr. Helen Fisher during 2004 is IPSATIVE, and not NORMATIVE.
It is only useful for entertainment purposes.
IPSATIVE TESTS ARE OBSOLETE SINCE YEARS.

I remember I had seen two draft papers from Chemistry:
The first clearly shows:
a) that Chemistry has a low successful "1.2.3 MEET in person step-by-step process", low successful first meeting rate for its members.
b) its matching method only reported early stage attraction between prospective mates and after the first meeting; in some persons attraction reduces its level OR worse even, morphs/metamorphoses to rejection. i.e. it is working only for short term mating!!!

The second shows:
a) the high serotonin type (Builder) who is attracted to people like themselves and the high dopamine type (Explorer) who also is attracted to people like themselves, could be looking for a LONG term romantic relationship.
and
b) the high estrogen Negotiator who is attracted to the high testosterone Director and vice versa, could be looking for a SHORT term romantic relationship.

The persons who used Chemistry, meet in person, and after that want to continue dating, is only a very small percentage of them. Less than 6% reach the first meeting in person stage. Of that 6% who reach the first meeting in person stage, not known exactly the percentage of persons who want to continue dating, but I suspect it is very low.

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Chemistry by Dr. Helen Fisher, REDESIGNED
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/chemistry-by-dr-helen-fisher-redesigned.html
------------
NEW and FRESH Online Dating Market 2017 (via Statista)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/new-and-fresh-online-dating-market-2017.html

and remember: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html  

Match site promoting Chemistry.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chemistry.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/match.com

Recently Chemistry was "redesigned".
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/chemistry-by-dr-helen-fisher-redesigned.html

Please remember: the Chemistry personality test designed by Dr. Helen Fisher during 2004 is IPSATIVE, and not NORMATIVE.
It is only useful for entertainment purposes.
IPSATIVE TESTS ARE OBSOLETE SINCE YEARS.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/we-have-chemistry-not.html
article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html


The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"
The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

Chemistry by Dr. Helen Fisher, REDESIGNED

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chemistry.com


New Chemistry site, operated by People Media (Match Group)
it seems it morphed to a more casual site.

Chemistry is part of People Media's MarriageMinded Community, which includes MarriageMindedPeopleMeet. As a member of Chemistry, your profile will automatically be shown throughout the MarriageMinded Community at no additional charge.


Dr. Helen Fisher / article: Has Online Dating Changed the Way We Love Each Other?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/dr-helen-fisher-article-has-online.html

Match to close Chemistry soon ??? PART 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/match-to-close-chemistry-soon-part-2.html

article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html

WE HAVE CHEMISTRY! ??? NOT
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/we-have-chemistry-not.html

Match Group Q1 2017, Revenue flat, ARPU flat, Match in decadence
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/match-group-q1-2017-revenue-flat-arpu.html
The Match team is working on artificial intelligence (AI) and its matching algorithms (since 2011). ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/the-match-team-is-working-on-artificial.html
It seems they plan to resurrect: Synapse, a behavioural recommender system but ...

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/synapse-match-algorithm.html

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

Dr. Helen Fisher / article: Has Online Dating Changed the Way We Love Each Other?

http://bigthink.com/videos/helen-fisher-on-the-ancient-brain-and-online-dating

BBC article: The science behind online dating profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/bbc-article-science-behind-online.html


article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html

The Surprising Way Most People Meet Their Partners
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/the-surprising-way-most-people-meet.html
 
article "Critics challenge the 'science’ behind online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-critics-challenge-science.html

About article "Online Dating and the Statistical Dark Arts"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/about-article-online-dating-and.html 
 
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry 2015.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.

The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations.

Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/nearly-1000-online-dating-startups-at.html

The innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html


The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.
but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.  

Match to close Chemistry soon ??? PART 2

Please see first part 1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/match-to-close-chemistry-soon.html


Blog freezed since November 2013. Perhaps Chemistry is closed soon?
http://blog.chemistry.com/


http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chemistry.com

https://siteanalytics.compete.com/chemistry.com/#.VSDOU_BWKYE

http://www.similarweb.com/website/chemistry.com


article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html

article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/love-sex/65811084/dr-love-biological-anthropologist-helen-fisher
"When you get the feeling that there's an endless trail of possibilities, you end up choosing none. "

Chemistry, 6 years from its genesis.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/12/chemistry-6-years-from-its-genesis.html

Neural Correlates of Four Broad Temperament Dimensions: Testing Predictions for a Novel Construct of Personality
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0078734

Match to close Chemistry soon ??? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/match-to-close-chemistry-soon.html

Executive Interview: Jana Bayad, CEO of SingldOut via GDI 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/executive-interview-jana-bayad-ceo-of.html

WE HAVE CHEMISTRY! ??? NOT 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/we-have-chemistry-not.html

There is no Scientifc Paper, peer reviewed by Academics from different Universities (public scrutiny of findings) showing Chemistry's matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group AND there never will be any paper because IPSATIVE personality tests like the proprietary one used at Chemistry are OBSOLETE (self-descriptive questionnaires) and should be discarded.

Please remember personality = temperament + character
Latest Research in Theories of Romantic Relationships Development shows: compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity** between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*Although no actual fresh paper uses the 16PF normative personality test (they mostly use different versions of the normative Big5 personality test instead) and linear or logistic multivariate regression equations to calculate similarity, they clearly show a connection between personality similarity and marital happiness / dyadic success (stability and satisfaction) for some persons.
**Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined.

Also there is a similarity trilogy between genetic, mate choice and personality based recommender systems.
  
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlation with quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html  

Report about Q2 2014, IAC (nasdaq IACI)

IAC/InterActiveCorp's (IACI) CEO on Q2 2014 Results - Press Release
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2359125-iac-interactivecorps-iaci-ceo-on-q2-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single
http://seekingalpha.com/news/1880875-iac-interactive-misses-by-0_02-misses-on-revenue


For me; it is clear they acquired FriendScout24 (old and obsolete site) and HowAboutWe (as gift) because they do not want to innovate. They want to squeeze their big databases to get all the juice (money) from the wallets of the daters.

When the IAC Personals bought OKCupid (3 years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission. IAC Personals backed Tinder instead, as the copycat of Badoo, but it seems there is a divorce between Tinder and Match just now! Perhaps the IAC will "discretely bury" Tinder soon, it will absorb it and merge with Match mobile (with Stream and Mixer features) as soon as possible.

Please see this information from Alexa and Compete, they show their sites reached operating ceiling!
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/match.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/match.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chemistry.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/chemistry.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/meetic.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/meeticaffinity.fr
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/okcupid.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/friendscout24.de

Please read also:

about the recent interview with the CEO of Match Group
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/interview-with-ceo-of-match-group.html

Report about Q1 2014, IAC (nasdaq IACI)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/report-about-q1-2014-iac-nasdaq-iaci.html

IACI and eHarmony (USA sites) big TV expenditures Jan-May 2014

via Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/06/04/what-match-coms-ad-spending-says-about-online-dating/

eHarmony Inc.’s matching algorithm is in the range of 3 persons shown as high compatible per 1,000 persons screened; exactly in the same range as searching by your own! Performing really as placebo.
eHarmony is a 14 years old obsolete site and a HOAX based on a big scientific FRAUD, because the normative Big Five model to measure personality of daters had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to measure personality of daters. Now replaced by HEXACO test, a.k.a Big Six test.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony/EliteSingles/eDarling, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia’s Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlation with quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

Several times I had challenged eHarmony’s Team, Match’s Team, even PlentyOfFish owners to launch a new compatibility (personality profiling) site, using the normative 16PF test or similar in different languages.
I had also challenged them to show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/using-technology-and-psychology-to-make.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

What Happens To Our Brain When We're In Love? by Dr. Helen Fisher

Just seen this article:
What Happens To Our Brain When We're In Love?  by Dr. Helen Fisher
http://capeandislands.org/post/what-happens-our-brain-when-were-love

Please read also:
WE HAVE CHEMISTRY! ??? NOT
and
remember:
big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-data-dating-is-not-key-to-long.html

Behavioural Recommender Systems CAN NOT outperform compatibility matching engines based on personality similarity.

Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless for serious online dating purposes and Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.

The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all! 

Tinder Impostors – Story of My Stolen Identity by Kristin Shotwell

The popular dating app Tinder claims it has made more than 1 billion matches among its users since launching less than two years ago. Too bad not all of them are who they say they are.
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hook-line-tinder-scammers-love-dating-apps-n77256
Last month, Kristin Shotwell, 21, was walking home from class when her friend told her that he had seen her profile pop up on Tinder while visiting the University of Georgia in Athens.
http://kristinshotwell.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/tinder-impostors-story-of-my-stolen-identity/
There was one problem: Shotwell, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, had been nowhere near Athens at the time and had never signed up for Tinder. Still, she shrugged it off, until her friends sent her a screen shot of a girl named "Kim."

“That is when it hit home, when I saw my face on a bio that had nothing to do with me,” Shotwell told NBC News.
http://kristinshotwell.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/the-quest-for-kim-has-moved-to-birmingham/

Evan Spencer, says that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, Match fail to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that some pictures were being used hundreds of times.


I still think: Tinder is like Chatroulette but it will collapse like Skout.
Lots of persons want to use it, but nobody wants to pay for it.

IAC Personals reorganization: Was it a coincidence or not?

Dec 18 2013 Match Faces Dispute Over User in Chicago

Dec 19 2013 IAC Reorganizes: Greg Blatt Is Chairman Of New Match Group

Was it a coincidence or not? Because the IAC did not announce during Q3 2013 they planned to reorganize.
"They do not want to innovate, they want to squeeze their big databases to get all the juice (money) from the wallets of the users. See also IAC Q3 2013 conference call full transcription."
When I was interviewed last January 2011 by "Caras y Caretas" (summer in Argentina) I thought there were going to be a big scandal, because former CEO of Match LATAM Countries recognized 75% inactive profiles at Match Argentina, but nothing happened until August 2011 when a "U.S. Class Action Called Match a 'Scam' / More than 90% of potential dates are "phantoms," suit charged then Match had morphed its marketing campaign.


My bet: Something big will happen soon in IAC Personals, perhaps a big earthquake for the Online Dating Industry.

IAC Q3 2013 conference call full transcription

Here is its main strategy for IAC Personals:
"We basically looked at our growth in users over the last year and our growth in converting those users to payers over the last year and then basically assumed, if we can do the exact same thing that we did over the last year over the next 3 years, holding pricing constant and a whole bunch of other things ...."
"Turning to Match (IAC Personals), we had a great third quarter. And to repeat what I've said now for 3 quarters running, the momentum continues to build, with solid increases in revenue growth,"
".... This year alone, new user conversion to payers is up double digits at Match, ... driven primarily by improvements in the mobile product. "
"Our services are generally based on a premium business model. With our traditional products like Match and Meetic, users can complete profiles, search other profiles, get matches and indicate interest to other profiles, all for free. But in order to communicate back and forth, they have to pay. On our other products like OkCupid and Twoo, we allow some degree of communication before hitting the paywall."
".. over the next 2 years, we think we can move average rates there meaningfully, without having to increase base subscription pricing. The effect of this would be to increase the lifetime value of the subscriber"


What means mobile for Match (IAC)? SmartPhones? Tablets? All-in-one computers with wi-fi you can take from dining room to the bedroom?
In the near future everything will be mobile?


Please see these screenshots

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/match.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/match.com/

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chemistry.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/chemistry.com/

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/okcupid.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/okcupid.com/

Imagine a NEW Legislation for Online Dating Sites to force them disclose how many active members they have (Premium members: paid or with gift subscriptions) ?
And also force them to conduct ID verification ?

Actually, the Online Dating Industry has no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven.
BUT
A variety of new laws, or new interpretations of existing laws, could subject dating sites to claims or otherwise harm their business. (extracted from IAC SEC filing)


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years. (Please read: The Unsurprising Trend of Online Dating 'Going Offline' ) 

C level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry. Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven! 

Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia's Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).
The market remains enormous for new players.  

With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever.

Match to close Chemistry soon ???

Nearly 9 long years ago, during December 2004, Dr. Helen Fisher was contacted by the people from Match to create Chemistry, the last innovation at Match, a compatibility matching method.

Blog freezed since March. Perhaps Chemistry is closed soon?

They do not want to innovate

IAC Personals (Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OKCupid and others) does not want to innovate.

PlentyOfFish does not want to innovate.

eHarmony does not want to innovate.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlation with quantized patterns.


Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry
All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.