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Find new friends, relationships or romance. Register for free or join immediately and take advantage of the chatrooms, 1-to-1 instant messaging facilities, and talk to the resident agony aunt Sophie. Compile your own profile and search for like-minded members. This site is very fun, very addictive and with a million members has a great sense of community.

Joining datingagency.com as a guest member is free. You can post your own free profile, upload a free photo and search for a partner in your local area. Other free guest services include reading messages, replying to messages and viewing daily horoscopes by leading astrologer, Russell Grant.

Personal ads from the team at Yahoo! provide a user-friendly website for singles. Members can create a free profile enhanced with photo's, voice messages & videos, and browse other members profiles. Users must upgrade to full member status to use the internal anonymous email system and instant message system.

Add a photo-profile free of charge and search through the vast database of singles looking under criteria such as age, location and interests. A very good site for singles serious about finding a partner.

Join for free and add a photo profile and search for other members. Full members can use the instant messaging, video and audio chat systems, search with a more advanced criteria specification, and take advantage of the automatic matchmaking feature.

Nice looking, easy to use site where members can upload a personal photo-profile and view other members profiles using the additional search capabilities to find your most compatible matches, and gain access to your "onsite message center".

AmericanSingles.com is made up of a fun, high-quality group of singles from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all professions and all ages, who are seeking dates, soul mates, friends, and even pen pals galore...take your pick! It's free to create your profile, post photos and search for members. To get full access to all of the AmericanSingles.com communication tools, you can upgrade to an American Singles.com Premium Membership.

CupidJunction.com offers users a free dating profile that allows you to search their singles database and send messages for free. In order to begin 2-way contact with a potential single you must subscribe to a Premium Membership, which gives full access to the Message Center, browse your matches and add potential dates to your Favorites List.

Slick, professional-looking site, with a massive database of members in the USA and worldwide. At Friendfinder, you'll find a community of people using the site as a tool to make connections and find partners for dating, romance, friendship, and a variety of encounters. With internal email, advanced search options, instant messages, magazine, and a members articles and poetry section.

Spanish-speaking branch of the stylish, professional FriendFinder network. Amigos offers all the regular functions of FriendFinder aimed at Spanish / Latin singles.

BeanDate.com is different from other dating services because it creates an online community of "coffee house" singles - people who are interested in meeting other like-minded people in a safe, relaxed atmosphere. BeanDate.com provides an easy way for singles to connect online and meet for the first time in the comfort of a local café or coffeehouse. Using the latest technology, BeanDate.com provides matchmaking services that enable you to quickly identify and communicate with people who are compatible with your criteria. Once you've identified whom you want to meet, BeanDate.com then helps you find the right café to meet them in for that quick, easy first cup of coffee.

Established in 1998, Blinddater is a global dating service with more than 1 million members worldwide from over 40 countries. Joining Blinddater is free and once submitting a profile, members gain access to a number of features, including various types of searches, special features areas, profiles, photos, and chat rooms. By becoming a subscriber, the member can send unlimited messages to other members, check full profiles and photos, use the private chat service, and gain access to all the features and products available on the site. To stop abuse and indecent material on the site, they have developed the Blinddater Site Security system.

eHarmony offers professional singles a dating service based on scientific matching and expert guidance to help you find your soul mate. On completion of the 500 questions designed to profile the 29 dimensions that help you get the best results from their in-depth matching system, you receive an in-depth personality profile, worth $40, for free!

American based introduction & marriage agency for beautiful Russian ladies, GetMarriedNow.com is a company founded in 1996 & maintains a database of more than 2000 beautiful Russian women. With profiles, email, video chat and translation services amongst the many features of this professional agency.

More than just a dating site, Mingles is a community too! Photo profiles, HotLists, parties, message boards, and the exclusive PhotoChat - the chat that lets you see who you're chatting with. Great features with quality matchmaking services!

Metrodate offers free searching of their member profiles, with photo and voice features. Premium membership is required to contact other members of all nationalities and caters to all dating demographics. Access hundreds of thousands of profiles with personal messages, pictures, and voice recordings from other singles. With free chat rooms, message boards, and dating tips.

Professional international dating site, with detailed photo profiles, chat and horoscopes! Visitors to Date.com are able to post their profile and join the site for free. Once inside they are able to browse through thousands of pictures and profiles and search for a date. When they find someone whom they would like to meet they are encouraged to Upgrade and become a Premium Member. Premium Members are able to send email, free members are not.

Free to sign up for a limited membership where you have the ability to post profiles, search the Datopia database for prospects, and listen to voice greetings. Profiles include photo's, video and audio files. Members can use the matchmaking service, video conferencing capabilities and Get Connected! feature: Adding this 'click-to-talk' icon to your profile allows you to talk live to other members over standard telephone lines without exchanging or revealing your telephone numbers. You can Get Connected! even when the member you want to reach isn't online.

With free membership, members can post a free photo personal ad, send and receive 'Eye Contacts', read other members profiles and use the Cupid system to find matches. Cupid provides a safe, comfortable, user-friendly space on the Web that enables quick and stress-free encounters between people with similar interests and ideals. In using Cupid.com, you control the pace and the ultimate result of any encounter and you can do so safely and anonymously.