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Everybody's already googling each other

And today it's packaged in Google Romance: "We brought only the latest psychographic and search algorithms to bear on the problem of hooking up our users."

"When you do a Soulmate Search, your deeply personal and potentially life-altering search results are produced solely by computer algorithm, without human intervention of any kind.

Note: depending on your personality, you may or may not find this reassuring."

April 01, 2006 : 3:47 PM
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wait, is this an April Fool's joke?
posted by Cortney : April 01, 2006 4:36 PM : link to this comment

;-)
posted by Moira : April 01, 2006 4:41 PM : link to this comment

I also greatly enjoyed "Note: those who generally favor the “throw enough stuff at the wall” approach to online dating might find it useful to employ our Batch Profile Uploading option." and "[...but] he gets all cheek"
posted by jcreed : April 01, 2006 10:12 PM : link to this comment

Me, too. And isn't "throw enough stuff at the wall" just why blogs were invented?
posted by Moira : April 01, 2006 10:17 PM : link to this comment

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Psst! This is the blog of Moira Burke, a Ph.D. student in the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Rife with derivative pop culture blather, this site occasionally features thoughts on social psychology, usability, aesthetics, and the general meanderings of someone figuring out the meaning of life. Won't you help me find it?

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