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Sat, 25 May 2013 11:13:51 -0700 40 http://mashable.com/2013/05/14/eharmony-redesign/ “With the eHarmony redesign, Mishra said they wanted to focus on empowering the user, making sure visual hierarchy matched what the user was looking for and ensuring the site was human and emotional.” May 14, 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/eharmony-has-helped-you-get-a-date-can-it-help-you-get-a-job/2013/05/13/8d71cb84-b41d-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html “At a time when many Americans are still struggling to find work, eHarmony is gambling that it can win users over with an approach that prioritizes the kind of personal, emotional qualities that are difficult to discern from a résumé or a LinkedIn profile.” May 14, 2013 http://www.today.com/news/seniors-find-age-can-be-advantage-online-dating-1C9875172 “Depcik was resigned to being alone until she attended a wedding where watching happy, dancing couples left her feeling depressed. On the drive home, she heard an ad for a free three-day day membership on eHarmony. A believer in the rule of three, she decided to join, where after logging in a few times she saw the same photo of a man with “the sweetest smile ever” three times. It was a sign.” May 10, 2013 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/marrying-after-50-tackle-these-money-issues-first-2013-02-27 "When accountant Richard Grebinger connected with teacher Cindy Lambert on the dating website eHarmony in February 2011, they 'knew instantly that we wanted to be together,'" February 27, 2013 http://www.inc.com/kasey-wehrum/eharmony-founder-explains-breaking-up.html "Warren and the new executive team now meet for two hours every morning to discuss the company's new strategy. Befitting a company whose expertise is helping people get along, Warren says the new team is much more in alignment than the previous team." February 14, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/science/skepticism-as-eharmony-defends-its-matchmaking-algorithm.html?pagewanted=all "Unlike many other Web dating services, eHarmony doesn't let customers search for partners on their own. They pay up to $60 per month to be offered matches based on their answers to a long questionnaire, which currently has about 200 items. The company has gathered answers from 44 million people, and says that its matches have led to more than half a million marriages since 2005." February 11, 2013 http://drivingtraffic.com/eharmony-is-killin-it-with-mobile/ "'eHarmony's mobile conversions are up 40% year-over-year.' They are doing something right. With over 1 billion smartphones on the planet, 1 in 7 searches done via phone, and up to half of all email being checked on a phone, eHarmony is on the ball." February 8, 2013 http://www.dmnews.com/which-dating-site-delivers-the-love-matchcom-vs-eharmony/article/278257/ "[EHarmony] is much more real," Vasquez says, comparing each company's banner ads. "You can tell they're not trying to be gimmicky. It feels normal. Especially with the banner: 'Find the person that's right for you.'" February 1, 2013 http://www.inc.com/samuel-wagreich/eharmony-hire-your-soulmate.html "Langston added: 'We don't want you making hiring decisions based on four to five superficial data points. We want to give you 40 data points. We want to give you a much deeper connection.'" January 10, 2013 http://www.retailmenot.com/blog/dating-websites.html "With big, splashy icons and graphics that include a large 'cover photo' (steal from Facebook much?), eHarmony is the best designed of all the dating sites." January 10, 2013 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/08/eharmony-to-help-employers-find-that-special-someone "'We know that it's between 50 and 75 percent of all people say they're not really happy with the jobs they currently have,' says Neil Clark Warren, the founder and CEO of eHarmony. 'We're trying to bring to bear some of the algorithms that we've already understood from all of the work we've done on matching people for marriage.'" January 8, 2013 http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/looking-for-love-new-year-marks-high-season-for-online-dating-1.1101907#ixzz2HJLLz5bS "'I think if a person's got a New Year's resolution to get serious about meeting somebody, the best thing they can do is to look for a service that's serious about it' Langston said. 'Because you'd have to go out to a lot of bars on a lot of nights to cover the same amount of ground that you could cover in an hour.'" January 6, 2013 http://mashable.com/2013/01/02/dating-websites-high-season/ January 3, 2013 http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-friends/index.html#/v/2067954050001/how-to-find-love-in-2013/?playlist_id=86912 “…the next most important thing is to find somebody to love that is a lot like you. You don’t want to have to argue over every little thing.” January 2, 2013 http://latimes.com/business/la-fi-eharmony-20121214,0,496523.story "We have a good trajectory coming up," said Armen Avedissian, eHarmony's new chief operating officer. "We've got over 1.2 million people who have been married using the eHarmony services. We're going to try to expand it into other industries and see how far that takes us." December 13, 2012 http://www.recruiter.com/i/matchmaking-comes-to-jobs-eharmony-to-launch-job-board/ “When describing recruitment technology and job matching services, many companies try to describe their product offering as “the eHarmony of job search“. If eHarmony is to introduce their own job matching service, it appears now that, well… only eHarmony will be the eHarmony of job search.” December 6, 2012 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-03/eharmony-founder-breaks-up-with-investors-to-reboot.html “Warren sees multiple opportunities for growth. He estimates that of the 120 million single people in the country, only 5 million are on a dating or relationship site, so just getting more to gravitate to the Web will expand the market.” December 3, 2012 http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000102265&play=1 "We created the Bad Date Rescue App, basically, as a fun and engaging way to both save people from a bad date and get them into a great date." July 11, 2012 http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/14/five-phrases-to-take-off-your-online-dating-profile-now/#ixzz1pE3UNuCI "NewsFeed asked Grant Langston, eHarmony’s senior director of social media and advice blog coordinator, to walk us through the most overused phrases on online dating profiles. 'Your challenge is standing out,' he says." February 14, 2012 http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_a4606490-8720-5331-b46a-9955fce7bbbe.html "Jeannie Assimos, a spokesperson for eHarmony, emphasized the importance of realizing what didn’t go right in your previous relationship and learning from that. 'After a divorce, it is sometimes much clearer what you want and what you don't want', she said." February 12, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/valentines-day-tips-from-_n_1268638.html "Dr. Gonzaga: After a break-up, whether it ends in divorce, bereavement, or mutual agreement, there needs to be a period of grief and adjustment before you dive into dating again. If you are still emotionally affected by the past relationship, you won't attract the kind of person who will be best for you when the good times return." February 10, 2012 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203824904577215621530430232.html#slide/1 "The online dating service eHarmony Inc. moved in 2010 to this building in Santa Monica, Calif., from Pasadena, Calif., so it could be closer to other Internet businesses. Its neighbors include venture-backed start-ups and established brands like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc." February 10, 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/09/us-valentinesday-idUSTRE8181UG20120209?feedType=RSS&feedName=everything&virtua "'People are really interested in experience gifts, rather than object gifts,' said Gian Gonzaga, a social psychologist with the dating website eHarmony... 'The traditional gifts are great but don't sacrifice the experience with someone for more traditional gifts.'" February 9, 2012 http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/16937358/valentines-day-surprise-proposal "Little did Ann Stensaas know, but she and Bill Shorts first Valentine’s Day together would turn into her engagement story." February 9, 2012 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204612504576608871744404618.html "In an ongoing longitudinal study of 300 couples in the first five years of marriage, researchers at the dating site eHarmony, found that relationship satisfaction declines when an individual talks about a bad event with a partner who isn't supportive. And the couple is more likely to argue the next day. If the partner is supportive, the study found, relationship satisfaction stays steady and the couple is less likely to argue." October 4, 2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-gian-gonzaga/im-married-now-what_b_988731.html "Many couples expect their first year of marriage to be nothing short of a fairy tale and are caught by surprise when the first year proves to be filled with challenges as opposed to an extended period of honeymoon bliss." October 3, 2011 http://marlothomas.aol.com/2011/09/12/mondays-with-marlo-dr-gonzaga-9-12-11/ "…what we think of as the science of love is distilling all of the wisdom of all of the people who have been in relationships and being able to take that knowledge and organize it so that other people who are entering into relationships can use it and make their own relationships stronger." September 12, 2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-neil-clark-warren/on-second-thought-dont-ge_b_888874.html "I'm not trying to say that marriage is not in trouble. I am trying to say that there are some clear answers to the question of how marriage can get uniformly more satisfying for the people involved. And this I firmly believe: When done right, marriage can be the greatest institution on earth." July 5, 2011 http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/43415299#43415299 "There is a survey out called 'What men and women really want in a relationship'...What we found interesting is the top for are the same. Men and Women actually want the same thing." June 16, 2011 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061511-cloud-cio-in-defense-of.html?page=1 "It might be tempting to portray eHarmony as a different kind of animal-an online business that relies on IT-but that would be a mistake. Every company is becoming that kind of animal, no matter what business it is in." June 15, 2011 http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41162089/vp/43267065/#43267065 "The kind of humor that men like... if you are wondering because certain women have that bawdy kind of crass sense of humor...guys do not like a wise ass...they do like sarcasm...and they love a juvenile sense of humor." June 3, 2011 http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/a-funny-way-to-win-her-over/2011/06/03 "According to a new survey from eHarmony, women are most attracted to men who use dry, sarcastic humor. Men are into women who deploy juvenile 'guy' humor... 'If you see eye-to-eye on humor, that helps with compatibility,' says Gian Gonzaga, PhD, Senior Director for Research and Development at eHarmony." June 3, 2011 http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/25/survey-ladies-who-use-guy-humor-get-all-the-guys/ "According to a study of 331,138 eHarmony male users, the style of humor that men most appreciate from a woman is 'sarcastic,' followed by 'juvenile', 'geeky' or 'raw.'" May 25, 2011 http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/blogs/smitten/2011/05/dating-what-kind-of-humor-are.html "eHarmony found that men preferred women with a sarcastic sense of humor. Women dig men with dry senses of humor. And most fascinating of all, was the trend that guys shared that they went for 'women who use 'guy humor'—sarcastic, juvenile, geeky or raw.'" May 25, 2011 http://www.businessinsider.com/study-men-prefer-woman-who-use-guy-humor-2011-5 "A recent eHarmony study found that a sense of humor is the number one 'Must Have' that both men and women are looking for in a partner." May 25, 2011 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021705611.html "Gonzaga thinks people who have been divorced can be at an advantage - they know what works for them and what doesn't - but only if they take time to reflect deeply on the last relationship. 'Then,' he continues, 'you need to use these criteria as a platform for [screening] new people.'" February 19, 2011 http://yourlife.usatoday.com/sex-relationships/story/2011/02/Ultimate-gift-of-love-Woman-giving-fiance-her-kidney/43610228/1 "Amy Anderson already gave her heart to her fiance. Now she's giving him her kidney...The couple met in August 2009 on the dating website eHarmony.com." February 14, 2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-gordon/the-game-of-online-dating_b_822728.html "Since the institutions that used to control the dating market — families, churches, clubs — have lost their grip, eHarmony stepped in as a new guiding hand, picking your best matches according to their secret recipe for love, and reviving the cozy paternalism of the old dating regime." February 14, 2011 http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/02/11/second.time.dating/index.html?hpt=Sbin "Gonzaga is the senior director of research and development at eHarmony.com, one of many dating websites that have sprouted online over the last decade. His book, 'Dating the Second Time Around: Finding Love That Lasts,' is packed with practical advice for people eager to give dating another shot." February 11, 2011 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/what-are-your-relationship-deal-breakers/ "eHarmony has analyzed the 'must have' and 'can't stand' responses of nearly 720,000 members, identifying the top 10 relationship deal breakers for men and women... These are the positive and negative qualities that are nonnegotiable and help the couple decide if they want to pursue a dating relationship." February 1, 2011 http://blogs.forbes.com/jennagoudreau/2011/01/07/high-earning-women-want-hot-older-men-sex-dating-love-george-clooney-angelina-jolie-brad-pitt/ "'In the data I've seen, women always want higher earning men,' Gonzaga says. Among eHarmony users, women who earned more valued a potential partner's income even more. In fact, women in the $250,000+ income bracket placed the greatest emphasis on money, he says..." January 7, 2011 http://www.technologyreview.com/business/26805/ "The matchmaking software gathers 600 data points for each user, including how often they log in, who they search for, and what characteristics are shared by the people they actually contact. According to Essas, eHarmony has used this information to predict how likely it is that two people will engage in conversation, which helps determine which matches will be suggested on any given day. 'How do we get people talking to each other to recognize their commonalities?' he asks. The new software, he says, gets more such conversations started, 'with 34 percent more back-and-forth communication compared to a year ago.'" December 27, 2010 http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2033283,00.html "'Isn't it dangerous going online? I hear this from the older set who aren't quite as used to having their lives online as the younger generation is,' says Gian Gonzaga, senior director of research at eHarmony.com, which has also experienced a boost in interest from the 50-plus crowd." November 26, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575522532535047978.html November 22, 2010 http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/Relationships/Real-Life-Online-Dating-Success-Stories.html "Let go of your skepticism. You might think that it's impossible to find a perfect match, but they're out there. 'And if you're serious, use a serious site, like eHarmony,' says Tonya. 'It's great, but it's not for nonchalant daters!'" September 29, 2010 http://www.businessinsider.com/digital-100#20-eharmony-20 "Believe it or not, people don't just use the Internet for seedy hookups. eHarmony, which operates in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, is the destination for online daters go for 'serious relationships.' The company has over 33 million registered users." September 23, 2010 http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/23/the-algorithm-of-love/ "Under technology chief Joseph Essas, a former Yahoo (YHOO) search engineer, eHarmony has developed its own computer algorithms to optimize love connections. But there's an added layer of complexity in applying the technology to dating. 'It's not just that you have to like the movie,' explains Essas, comparing his efforts to Netflix's. 'The movie has to like you back.'" September 23, 2010 http://www.courant.com/features/hc-love-story-0919-20100919,0,306838.story "She sent the company their 'success story and then asked them if it was possible to get married' at eHarmony's headquarters in Pasadena. 'We were looking for ways to celebrate the company's success' on its 10th anniversary, Breton says. 'This was an exciting opportunity. We had never hosted a wedding.'" September 19, 2010 http://mashable.com/2010/09/15/online-dating-video/ "...Amongst those couples that have been married there is a certain set of them that are the most satisfied, the happiest in their relationships and this is the basis for the algorithm. So essentially when we match people up, we are matching them up with people who they share the same traits with at the same level that the happiest couples that are out there. That is what compatibility means to us." September 15, 2010 http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4324601/eharmony-celebrates-10-years-of-online-relationships-/ "These last ten years have seen an incredible change in perceptions around online relationships. Ten years ago nobody thought that you could have a great, quality relationship that you would find online and here we are ten years later, just having announced that 542 people on an average day get married through eHarmony." August 30, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/eharmony-ceo-greg-waldorf_n_695582.html "Earlier this month, online dating service eHarmony.com celebrated its 10th anniversary and a major milestone: according to a Harris Interactive Study, between 2008 and 2009, 542 people who met through the online matchmaker were married every day in the U.S." August 26, 2010 http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/1778/1644289?cpt=8&title=bloomberg&wpid=7072 "People have a harder and harder time meeting someone for a quality relationship. It is really that emphasis on quality relationships that we have. We are not about a hook-up or a quick date. We are really trying to help people to find long lasting happiness and that focus that we have, with the scientific research and the match-making system, it's really working for people." August 19, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/business/media/16eharmony.html "The dating Web site eHarmony turns 10 on Monday, and it is celebrating the anniversary with an advertising campaign called 'Love Begins Here.' Replete with roving pedicabs, new television commercials and a giant billboard in Times Square, the campaign features couples who met on the site and a message that singles can still find meaningful relationships." August 15, 2010 http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/07/12/the-100m-revenue-club-eharmony-captures-hearts-of-vcs/ "The venture-backed company has [grown steadily] by bucking the trends, both when it was founded during the dot-com bubble—amid a slew of other companies hoping to marry the power of the Internet with the age-old desire to meet Mr. or Ms. Right—and more recently, when facing a new crop of sites focused on casual dating through features such as social networking or video chat." July 12, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/eharmony-seeks-scientific-edge-uncertain-game-love/story?id=10701151 "Waldorf believes the company's big brain — the group of Ph.D.s who write the algorithm that's supposed to put people together — makes all the difference between this place and just another dating service." May 21, 2010 http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/37060609#37060609 "So what makes a successful marriage?.... Marriage researchers like psychologist Gian Gonzaga look for clues in the ways couples interact. Dr. Gonzaga is one year into a five year study of 300 couples for the online match making service eHarmony." May 10, 2010 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37024358#37024358 "Newlyweds Carrie and Brad Vinikow, who met on eHarmony, volunteered to have Dr. Gonzaga and Dateline observe how they get along." May 9, 2010 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/leisure/article7026227.ece "Waldorf is betting that he can stay on top of the dating game by sharpening his psychological tools. The firm is serious about serious relationships and is conducting what is probably the largest scientific survey into the psychology of true love. It has a team of researchers assessing successful relationships and what makes marriages work, and is changing its questions to suit local markets." February 14, 2010 http://www.cnbc.com/id/35370922/site/14081545 "We think of every single member who gets married, like you said, the Harris research indicates 236 per day. Those people are the best ambassadors for our service. They are the ones that go out and tell their friends and family how great the service worked for them." February 12, 2010 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6180J320100209 "An analysis by online dating website eHarmony shows what people find attractive in a possible partner may not be the same qualities that will make the relationship successful, which is a lesson learned by those who have been married." February 9, 2010