Match.com : A Detail Online Dating Reviews

Editor’s Rating: **** ( 4 / 5 stars )

Editor’s Comments:
It is all about you. Match.com is the only online dating services I know that hands over 100% freedom to your hands. You have all the control. You may define these super rich features and fine tune it to suit your need easily. No sweats.

But the real appeal of Match.com is in its member’s quality that tends to be college-educated & professionals with most of the members are residents of large cities and its suburbs.
Match.com is the perfect place to mingle and make meaningful connections. If you are looking for love –ask no more. Hit match.com and you’ll be playing all the way to find your dream date. Still not sure? According to Guinness World Records and Industry measurement firm Comscore Media Metric, Match.com is the leading online dating service in the world and number one in North America, Europe, and Australia.

Company:
http://www.match.com

Motto/Slogan:
Connecting People

Members:
Over 15,000,000 members with 59% male/ 41% female ratio, mostly aged over 30 years old. 77% are in professional job and more than 85% have university degree

Categories:
Matchmaking – fun seeking casual dating and romance, intimate encounters and long term relationship for heterosexual and same sex singles.

Countries:
USA, Canada and world wide (28 countries on six continents)

Free membership:
Yes. It is free to join-setting up your profile, free to search and browse profile, and free to send wink but you can not send or receive emails messages from other members. Take my words, try match.com trial membership and you will feel deprived not being able to use their super rich features.

Profile Set Up:
Match.com offers 3 optional profiles:
Basic profile – you can finish it within few minutes. All you have to do is fill your personal information such as your name, age, address, and other personal information

While setting up basic profile will takes you few minutes, setting up physical attraction profile and personality profile may take you about an hour to finish. Although this process is little bit length, I appreciate the effort Match.com make to provide more accurate compatibility match for you. The questions were thought provoking and worth your time.

The physical attraction profile and personality profile make this site apart from other typical dating sites. The physical attraction profile enables you to search by typing exactly physical attributes or personality types.

Search Capability:
Great versatility and extreme rich features with ease-of- use profile searches to suit your need. The customized searches with drop down list provides more than just general basic search and two thumbs up for the ability to reverse search. You can find out who is currently search for your profile and you can save up to 50 favorites profile for future following up.

Compatibility Analysis:
Compatibility is base on preferences you set up. There are many options for sharing your profile. Selecting friendship or dating preference enables you discriminately display or hide your profiles. Within dating profile you have option to share one or both of your profile such as personality and physical attraction. Don’t worry about it; you can change your preference at any time if you change your mind.

Special Features:
Match.com‘s list of special features stand out and greater than any online dating sites reviewed.
1. Keyword Search.
Are you looking for a lady in her twenty who concocts her recipes as gracefully as she dances Chinese kung fu? Or looking for a successful business women who also a green peace activist? Type the keyword and Match.com will search all the profile and return the result that matches your keyword. It’s like having Google search engine handy just for your profile searching.

2. An amazing part comes when you send emails to your prospect profiles, Match.com show you a list of likeable profiles. Hmmm…Why do I feel like I had been there before? If you’d been in Amazon browsing for books, it gives you another list of similar books you just browsed. I feel it is interesting how Match.com giving us more alternatives.

3. Another special feature that drew my attention is Match.com includes video clips and voice greeting to personalize your profile. Fun flirting feature somehow makes me feel addicted to wink and blow tens of kisses to some attractive profiles.

4. Speed Dating
You can sign up for a quick round of phone calls with four different members at a set time. The topic of conversations is predetermined. You talk to each other for exactly four minutes with small break while viewing the profiles that Match.com sends to your screen. After the speed match, a scorecard is send where you can check yes or no or may be for follow up contact.

5. The convenience to make phone call that Match.com provides without has to reveal our phone number.

6. Match mobile.
Have your matches sent to your mobile.

7. Ability to save up to 50 profiles that you like most for future reference and following up.

8. Match.com messenger-chat program allows you to converse instantly.

9. Venus – love goddess
Once activated she searches the massive database to find out your prospects and deliver it directly to your inbox. If there is no any new compatible matches, Venus will tempts you with some exciting new search results. Follow the links within her emails, browse the profiles and connect with your prospects. To ensure you will always receive the best matches, please update your criteria in your profile.

10. Match.com Availability Status
Set it by selecting an icon from upper left corner of the messenger window. Your options are: Message Me Now! - Once you are online – people will know and then be able to send message to you. Other option is: Busy – You’re online but temporally and can’t receive any message. The last option: Stealth. Be anonymous while online.

11. Passport AOL Account linking
Linked accounts associate with Match.com username and passwords with your Microsoft passport ID or AOL screen name ID. Once you establish a linked account you can log into Microsoft passport, AOL and Match.com at the same time.

Site Navigation:
Average (54% of the sites are slower - Alexa.com)
Very clean and well organized design with colorful graphics. It’s easy to make changes on your setting or preferences within few clicks. If you want to broaden your friendship or seeking dates from around the world, all you have to do is click and here you go. You got what you want.

Safety:
Match.com has a strong policy to protect your privacy and security. No single data will ever be exposed to third party.

Help and Support:
Take few minutes to read FAQ page or take guide tour so you can find your way around quickly upon joining Match.com. If you can find answer online, you can make a toll-free phone call to a real person. Their customer care responds email within 24 hours.

Like:
1. Ease of use and numerous search options. Very rich features.
2. Assistance in creating personal profile and composing a stronger impact with email messages.
3. Two ways matching (reverse search) that check for common interest for both profiles.
4. Self discovery quizlets are fun to view
5. Team up with the relationship expert and TV show host, Dr. Phil to create MindFindBind a new 3 step workshop program.

Dislike:
Match.com is perfect as an online dating service site. Match.com’s service covered beyond the basic features and I don’t have any complain to this site except for this site is filled up with too many ads and paid services. You have to dig deeper to your pocket to use it even though you are a paying member.

Do I recommend it?
Yes. I would. I personally like Yahoo.Personal better but I can’t ignore Match.com’s super duper compatibility tool. It’s more powerful than any other online dating sites.