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The US online dating market continues to grow but faces a slow down in the number of users paying for access, according to a study by JupiterResearch. European online dating sites are growing as well and are attracting new users. Revenues will double from 243 million euros in 2006 to 549 million euros in 2011, according to the JupiterResearch online dating forecast.

Just when you thought it was safe to write a check for stock investing, the options backdating scandal hits.

Ten years ago, people sniggered when a peer said they had a date with someone they met online. The stigma seems to be lessening in American society and online dating is becoming just as viable an option as the supermarket or singles bar for making love connections. That said, most still the other one's lying about something.

Farmers need love too, daggum it. While city folks are a-sippin' their lattes and ponderin' the meaning of life, farmers are knee-deep in muck, yankin' on the hind legs of a breeched calf. You ain't gonna find girls in there, Mister, which is why Jerry Miller set up FarmersOnly.com, an online dating website for, well, farmers only.

The Online Publishers Association attributes $986.8 million in content purchases to continued strength in entertainment purchases like music, and this is only for the first half of 2005.

I can't even begin to tell you how many things are wrong with Lycos' dating search engine business model.

As search engines look to expand their role in the web universe; Google with Orkut, Yahoo with HotJobs, SocialGrid.com is looking to make Google into an online dating service using tools already available to the search engine. SocialGrid does this by having users insert searchable metadata tags into their personal web pages.