Dating internet site CEO describes how fits that are algorithm strategy to set lonelyhearts.
May 21, 2010 -- It l ks like virtually any date A couple shares a meal that is romantic the length of learning the other person.
Hilarie, a 28-year-old attorney, uses words like perceptive, hard-nosed and skeptical to explain herself. She's concentrated, wondering and outbound.
Tony, a 32-year-old pc software engineer, defines himself as fair, sensible and logical. He is also focused, wondering and outgoing.That's according to an exhaustive, 320-question self-evaluation that both Hilarie Link and Tony Bako have actually done to join eHarmony, the internet dating service that paired them.
It l ks like any other date that is first except Hilarie and Tony's rendezvous will be watched over by multiple cameras and a Ph.D. in relationship studies.
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The Ph.D. is Gian Gonzaga, who conducts research for eHarmony. Hilarie and Tony have actually agreed to the strange setup to test the company's capability to match individuals.
"They seem[ed] to match very well," Gonzaga said for the couple's eHarmony profiles. " There are certainly a couple of things in there which can be special highlights for them in terms of their characters, which have a tendency to indicate that they may have some things in common that basically drive the getting-more-connected in a relationship."
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