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Free Basic Membership?

Yes. Three days free trial offered. 

Regions Served

All

Relationship type(s)

Dating and matchmaking: serious, casual and anything in between.

Orientation(s)

Heterosexual, gay, lesbian and anything in between.

Highlights

Guarantee: Match.com is perhaps the only dating site that offers a guarantee. If you don't find someone in six months you get the next six months free.

Venus (feature), their godess of love helps seek out suitable matches for you and delivers the newest profiles in your in-box.

MatchScene online magazine: Offers advice, stories, surveys and polls, and love letters.

Keyword search: Allows you to search profiles using specific keywords of interest to you.

Personality matching: To help you find your most compatible prospects.

Lots of people: Match.com has perhaps the highest number of quality singles on the web. This increases the chance of finding someone compatible near you.

Well known: Match.com has been around for over two decades, continually improving.

Features: Instant messaging, anonymous email and much more. Match.com has all the bells and whistles and then some. It is a site that other sites like to emulate if not copy. 

Extra features: Include video, audio and anonymous telephone contact.

Helps you in creating profiles and composing emails; two of the most challenging and intimidating tasks of online dating.

Downsides

Ads throughout the site.

Allows members to skip on some details.

Too many people: This is both good and bad- you have to be very specific with your search to avoid going through endless profiles.

Must sign up to make contact.

Overall

Match.com is has been a leader in the online dating scene since the beginning of Internet dating. Being one of the oldest and perhaps the largest dating site in the world means that Match.com is doing something right.

This is a fun, well organized, and feature-rich dating site that has the most diverse range of members seeking partners for companionship, friendship, romance, marriage and anything in-between. Signing up is simple and quick.