 Plenty
of Fish in The Sea - See Them Upfront
Unlike lots of other dating sites, at
Yahoo
Personals UK they don't make you go through the boring rigmarole
of having to complete a longwinded profile before you get
to view the merchandise...only to find that you're not interested.
You can get started immediately...by checking out who's on the
market.
You only need to start telling everyone about yourself and who
you're looking for after you're satisfied that you've a fair
chance of finding him or her on the site. To to that, you just use
their search tools, which you can do by using the pink basic Yahoo
Personals UK search box
opposite, or on their site.
Date Someone Close To Home
If
there's one thing that annoys me
about dating sites, it's their apparent inability to avoid serving
me up people in whom
I'm
ever likely to be even remotely interested in.
One of the biggest
areas of mismatch is geographic location. I'm not really griping about searching
on the internationally based sites like Udate or Friendfinder -
after all, if you enter the global market, you're going to get a
global response. No, I'm
having a moan about signing up on a UK based site with the
intention of arranging dates that don't involve buying airplane
tickets. And that includes tickets to and from Manchester. Or Glasgow.
They're fantastic places, but not really practical if like me, you live
in the South and are looking for a regular date.Call me lazy,
but I
want to meet someone who lives less an hour's drive from me, and
even that's pushing it. Thankfully, there's Yahoo Personals UK.
Yahoo have an enormous head
start over their competitors when it comes to recruiting people to
dating sites. They're able to reach a massive audience through
what's called "viral marketing". If you receive an e-mail from
someone with a Yahoo e-mail account, there'll be a message at the
bottom, which is often about Yahoo Personals. If you're a Yahoo
account holder, you'll see messages on you homepage. If you use
Yahoo's search engine to find something, you'll see ads for Yahoo
Personals. All that advertising has an impact; in less than 2
years, Yahoo Personals UK & Ireland has become the third
largest dating site in the world.
So...they can afford to allow
you to be picky about who you date - there's plenty to go around.
Get this: I live in a tiny village; I used
Yahoo Personals UK's specialized search tool to enter who I
was looking for; a man within 10 years of my own age, and living
no more than 10 miles from me. I had 138 profiles entries come
up.....including at least one who lives in my village! Now
that's what I call pulling power!
Again, you can try this out yourself with the search box
opposite -
unfortunately it won't allow you to specify the limits of the radius you want
to work within (you have to
go to the site
to do that), but it
will list the dates closest to you first, so you'll get a good idea of just how many
potential dates there are near you; and trust me, there are loads!
Features
Since they'd already established themselves as communications market leaders,
Yahoo Personals UK have been able to draw on their e-mail and Instant
Messaging infrastructures as the base communication methods for operating
their dating site. In addition they have;
Icebreakers - you can send an
unlimited amount of "hey, I'm over here and interested" messages
for free; you don't even have to have a paid membership. The
system will send a short message with your profile, photo and
contact details to anyone you're interested in. The rest
is up to them! You, of course will also receive Icebreaker
messages if people are interested in you. Go
Dating - If you've got 20 mins and a sense of humour, try
playing this interactive game. It's a multiple choice kind
of quiz that takes you around the world. By assessing how
handle your adventures, their system is able work out what sort
of person you are, and who might be right for you. At the
end, it will offer you a list of matches which it thinks is
ideal. Give it a go!
Smart Search - This a detailed
search tool, where you pare down the characteristics necessary
in your ideal partner, submit them and get a list of matches.
You can do this even before you sign up, so it's a useful
function to assess not only the number, but also the quality
of members on the site.
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