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Free Dating In Decline

Posted on May 25, 2016

OPW – May 25 – All three of the big old-school free dating sites were acquired by Match, and all three are in decline according to Google Trends. What do you think? Please comment.

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6 thoughts on “Free Dating In Decline”

  1. Beachedwhale's avatar Beachedwhale says:
    May 25, 2016 at 5:28 am

    They’ve all moved to mobile so you don’t get so many navigation searches on google. I would take that graph with a large pinch of salt (running a similar service myself). Also, plenty of fish rebranded as POF some years ago.

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  2. Beachedwhale's avatar Beachedwhale says:
    May 25, 2016 at 5:28 am

    They’ve all moved to mobile so you don’t get so many navigation searches on google. I would take that graph with a large pinch of salt (running a similar service myself). Also, plenty of fish rebranded as POF some years ago.

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  3. Maxicougar's avatar Maxicougar says:
    May 25, 2016 at 5:31 am

    Strange,
    I would have bet the opposite.
    According to me, people still want free dating services …
    The thing is that we now also must count on applications, and most of them are freemium.

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  4. Maxicougar's avatar Maxicougar says:
    May 25, 2016 at 5:31 am

    Strange,
    I would have bet the opposite.
    According to me, people still want free dating services …
    The thing is that we now also must count on applications, and most of them are freemium.

    Reply
  5. Thomas's avatar Thomas says:
    May 29, 2019 at 12:04 pm

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  6. Thomas's avatar Thomas says:
    May 29, 2019 at 12:04 pm

    As i can see DateHookup moved to https://datehookup.dating

    Reply

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