Match.com International

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Formerly the Australian based Soulmates Technology, Match.com International is the largest international dating service in the world (by comScore Media Metrix 1/05). It currently runs in more than 13 languages and is partnered with AOL, MSN, Netscape, and thousands of other companies around the world. It is also the most heavily accessed ColdFusion website in the world beating out MySpace and Macromedia's sites. It has an alexa.com traffic ranking of about 140 (as of November 2006).

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Soulmates Technology was founded by Martin Haynes and Daniel Haigh in early 1998 in Sydney Australia. It's rumored that they both met at the Cold Fusion User's Group meeting in Sydney and decided to build the site.

Soulmate's platform wasn't designed at first to be used as a dating website, but as a bridging software for traditional dating and meeting companies to pool their clients. Shortly after creating the platform, the site shifted goals to becoming a purely web based platform.

In April of 2002, Soulmates Technology was purchased by IAC/InterActiveCorp (then TicketMaster) to become the international wing of their other personals business. The sale was for a little more then $23M US.

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[edit] Match.com Brand

[edit] Partner Brands

A few of the many partner sites of Match.com International:

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