General News

Last month we reported this story, Rumor - FriendFinder purchased for $1 Billion?. Well it turns out that most of the rumor is true according to the New York Times. The FriendFinder Network was sold but for $500 million. There are over 25 sites in the FriendFinder Network with about a total of 1.2 million paying subscribers out of 260 million members. The projected profits of the network is estimated to be $340 million this year.

Some more of the popular sites in the FriendFinder Network includes their first site created, FriendFinder.com and Passion.com geared towards adults.

We have just introduced a new dating category for our award winners. The new category is called:

🏆Award Winning Dating

This category represents the current year's recipients for the Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards. For more information on the awards please visit our Awards topic or the new category to view the recipients directly.

First eHarmony, the dating site, got its start in 2000. Then in 2006 eHarmony launched its eHarmony Marriage site with its goal to help people to create better and stronger marriages. I notice recently on eHarmony's site that they had launched eHarmony Parenting this past summer. This is a free resource to help and guide parents to raise happy and healthy children. The site contains mainly articles which are arranged by topics like Anger, Discipline and Medical. There are 20 topics in total and the contributors all seem to have professional backgrounds that would make them an expert in this area. If you visit this site don't expect a large number of articles but, the ones they do have are informative.

Why did eHarmony create a resource for parents? Single Parents make up a large part of the online dating market and eHarmony is tapping into this by offering single Moms and Dads a free resource on parenting.

For more on eHarmony read our review. For parenting information visit eHarmony Parenting.

Ha, I noticed on the Online Dating Insider (a blog for people who work in the Dating Industry) that David has an article on Date.com's new Blog Widgets. These Blog Widgets are actually quizzes. The available quizzes include "How addicted are you to Online Dating?" and a "Hot or Not Calculator". Once you take a quiz they will give you the code to put on a blog if you have one. Dave only scored a 45% and he thought that was low since he spends a large amount of time using online dating sites. I took the test as well and I scored a 45%! I spend a fair bit of time using online dating sites but only from the point of reviewing the dating service and checking in from time to time to see any new features and what has changed. So in this regard, some of the questions I answered pertaining to how often I change my profile and photo, would have lowered my overall score.

You can see our Date.com Review here for more information on this dating service.

Just a note for all of you ChristianCafe.com members out there. The ChristanCafe.com have updated their site with improved navigation. A new dropdown menu system has been added to allow members to access more pages of the site in just one click. Some regular menu items have also been moved for a better flow of the interface.

Check our our review of ChristianCafe.com for more information.

According to a recent Financial Post article, Ashley Madison, the dating service that caters to people who want extramarital affairs is banned from placing ads on the Microsoft Network (MSN). MSN Canada states the reason for the ban is because this web service is designed to facilitate deception.

While I don't agree morally with the Ashley Madison dating site concept, I'm on the fence about this ban. On one side MSN is a business and they have the right to decide who can and who cannot advertise with them. On the other hand, say all of the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) took the same stance on who can advertise. This would hurt your legitimate business. It is a form of censorship in a way and IMO the big 3 search engines are basically an essential service of the internet.