Internet daters rejoice! Match.com will now be screening its customers against a national sex offenders database. The decision comes after a Los Angeles woman sued Match.com after being raped by a guy she met on the dating site. However, Match.com's president said that the "decision to use the registry was not in…

Vanessa Bayer is one of Saturday Night Live's new faces this season — and easily one of the most likable newbies in some time. This is why we're surprised to see this awkward "Dating on Demand" video featuring the comedian.

Today we looked at sad lonely online dating for sad lonely people. Naturally this got you all telling your own stories, with one commenter painting an interesting triptych of women.

Breaking: everyone involved in online dating is a craven, superficial liar. And that's the good news. We're all equal! Dating should be a breeze, since we're all young, tall, wealthy, and attractive (online). But the evidence says: love's tough.

Technology. Love. Love. Technology. Poking. IM-ing. Can we live in this interconnected powder-keg and give off sparks? These, and other pressing nuptial quandaries faced our embedded wedded bliss reporter Phyllis Nefler as she sifted through this week's Weddings and Celebrations.

You might imagine that, after scanning guys' dating profiles, women would be turned off by the douche who's so proud of his gym-honed abs that he poses shirtless. But scientifically-collated data begs to differ: Dating site OKCupid has found that men whose profile photos include a shirtless shot get more…

Conde Nast's having survival issues. Not to worry. Despite shuttering Gourmet and clearing out all the Orangina, Si's got a brand new bag: a Conde Nast dating site. We test-drove it with a profile on behalf of a certain chairman.

Condé Nast has been busy slashing staff all this week. (It's rumored the cuts continued today at Glamour, and some suspect that other publishing companies like Time Inc. are now gearing up to follow suit.) Clearly, though, it's all part of Condé's master plan to move out of unprofitable businesses like magazines and…

Hipster Grifter Kari Ferrell currently sits in a Philly jail cell awaiting extradition to Utah. OR DOES SHE? She's also a vegetarian lesbian named Erin from Detroit on OkCupid.com!

eHarmony does not hate gay people. It is merely ignorant of them. That is the dating site's excuse for excluding same-sex customers — a practice that led a gay New Jersey man, Eric McKinley, to file a complaint with New Jersey's attorney general which eHarmony has just settled, paying a $50,000 fine to the state and…

It began as farce; now it ends in tragedy. CNET is abandoning Consumating, the dating site it bought in December 2005. It has since lost interest in maintaining the dating site which Ben Brown launched as a satire — something to do with its top line being a parody of actual revenues. Consumating's official shut down…

Online dating site True.comcongratulated the New Jersey legislature for passing a law that will require online dating services to disclose their criminal background screening practices and offer safe dating tips. We too applaud the law, but also True.com as well. Because as you can tell from the pictured ad,…

Apart from its GMIJ-worthy lede ("The Internet lets people search billions of Web pages in a fraction of a second and instantaneously tap information around the globe. One thing it couldn't do: Find Brian Wolf a girlfriend."), this bog-standard WSJ piece about the losers of online dating contains pretty much what…

Yes, this is exactly what it looks like. The Guardian reports:

"You're not out there!" George Costanza insisted to his mother, Estelle, when she announced she was getting an eye job so she'd look her best after her separation from Frank. "You can't be, because I'm out there. And if I see you out there, there's not enough voltage in this world to electroshock me back into…

Huge news today from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: