eHarmony Seeks Scientific Edge in Uncertain Game of Love

eHarmony Seeks Scientific Edge in Uncertain Game of Love

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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