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Free exchange: Optimising romance
Feb 11th 2016, 3:44 from Print edition
To find true love, it helps to understand the economic principles underpinning the search28
Graduates and employment: Mismatch
Jun 3rd 2015, 10:20 from Free exchange
Why the job-hunting class of 2015 should study digital dating20
Dating apps: Too many fish in the sea
Apr 1st 2015, 2:50 from Print edition
In the dating market, having fewer choices can be more efficient22
Online dating: Tough love
Sep 24th 2014, 1:43 from Web-only article
Free dating services are booming, while subscription sites wither11
Sex and love: The modern matchmakers
Feb 9th 2012, 4:02 from Print edition
Internet dating sites claim to have brought science to the age-old question of how to pair off successfully. But have they?73
Online dating: Love at first byte
Dec 29th 2010, 10:57 from Print edition
Online-dating sites have made it easier for people to click with one another. But they still leave something to be desired41
Face value: Marc Simoncini: Lucky in love
Dec 9th 2010, 10:31 from Print edition
A serial entrepreneur shows France how to love, and how to fail4
Links: Reading material
Nov 19th 2010, 8:08 from Prospero 3
Sexuality and language: Gay words and straight words
Oct 18th 2010, 4:40 from Johnson
A survey of gay and straight people by a dating site reveals some suprising trends11
Phoneticised French: Kelhorreur!
Sep 22nd 2010, 3:33 from Johnson
French advertisers display a healthy disregard for linguistic and orthographic purity45
Online dating: Love between the covers
Aug 17th 2010, 5:45 from Prospero
At a time when books and their shelves threaten to become charming anachronisms, Matt Masina and Matt Sherman have created a new online dating site based on reading tastes18
Online dating and Salman Rushdie: Dark matter for Wednesday
Mar 31st 2010, 9:23 from Babbage
A dating site proves that Democrats can't get it together, Gandhi would have hated Britain's Digital Economy bill and Salman Rushdie spilled a Coke2
Dating in the downturn: Well met by clublight
Nov 5th 2009, 11:01 from Print edition
What online-dating sites are learning from pick-up artists9
The internet: Connecting up
Mar 26th 2009, 12:17 from Print edition
Online-dating websites prosper in the recession13
Professional heartache: Glintineye.com
Aug 24th 2000, 12:00 from Print edition
Can hard-driving capitalism solve the romantic problems it creates?0

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