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letsdothis3 ago

More about Match.com

https://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2015/02/matchcom-is-20-years-old.html

Eric Klien created a 170-point questionnaire, covering users’ horoscopes, their preferred mode of transport, taste in music, etc. He called it the “Electronic Matchmaker” and uploaded to his private Internet database just after Christmas 1992. In 1993, Klien sold his questionnaire and the domain name Match.com so he could focus on a new mission.

Match.com’s buyer was Gary Kremen. He purchased Match.com for $2,500 and launched it as a dating service on the open Internet in 1995. In 1998, he argued with his board and the company was sold. Its current owner, IAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company)

IAC (InterActiveCorp) is an American holding company, that owns brands across 100 countries, mostly in media and Internet.[2][better source needed] The company is headquartered in New York City.[3] Joey Levin, who previously led the company's search & applications segment,[4] has served as Chief Executive Officer since June 2015...IAC was established in 1986 as Silver King Broadcasting Company, as part of a plan to increase viewership of the Home Shopping Network (HSN) by purchasing local television stations.[6][7] By 1988, Silver King had bought 11 stations for about $220 million.[7] The company was later renamed as HSN Communications, Inc., and then Silver King Communications, Inc.[6] In 1992, Silver King was spun off to HSN shareholders as a separately traded public company.[8] In August 1995, Barry Diller acquired control of Silver King, in a deal backed by the company's largest shareholder, Liberty Media.[9][10] Diller, who had led the creation of the Fox network, reportedly hoped to use Silver King's stations as the foundation for a new broadcast network

Match Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group

Match Group, Inc. is an American Internet company that owns and operates several online dating web sites including OkCupid, PlentyOfFish, Tinder, and Match.com.

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On November 10, 2005, a class action was filed by Matthew Evans against Match.com in federal court in Los Angeles alleging that Match.com "secretly employs people as 'date bait' to send bogus enticing E-mails and to go on as many as 100 dates a month – or three a day – to keep customers ponying up." The suit has been repudiated by IAC as baseless. The suit was dismissed by the United States District Court for the Central District of California on April 25, 2007