Here's a novel idea, courtesy of the internet age and the power of Google. This guy creates a web application that converts your "statistics" (for lack of a better word, your age, sex, likes, dislikes, etc.) into a code that can be pasted into a web page (a large web page) so it can be searched by Google.

You then type a search term into Google based on what you want to look for, and voila! You get back hits of people who have those codes pasted into their pages. To me, this is the geekiest thing I've seen, and something that leverages the internet unlike the other internet dating/matching sites. But let me warn you, do you really want to find people this way? How about trolls that paste phony codes? Lead you to sites unknown. This is all free, after all. And about the guy who started this whole thing? Ladies, take a look at the page that is linked from his hit page in Google. It is marked "ladies only." This could be the stuff for a romantic comedy, or perhaps tragedy. He lists linked headings such as ""Reasons for still being single," and my favorite, "In defense of gold diggers."

One reason for the sites such as eharmony.com, match.com, friendfinder.com and the others to charge fees is to keep out some of the riff raff. I give this idea a thumbs down. I much prefer to meet people the old fashioned way.


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