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		unalone on Feb 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interesting take on a social networking site I guess. I'd find it more impressive if we'd managed to connect users using a similarly skewered method, but we didn't. (Even if we'd let you connect via similar answers, it would still be following convention.)

jacquesm on Feb 17, 2009 [–]

there is a dating site that uses a mechanism like that to match up likely candidates.

unalone on Feb 17, 2009 | [–]

I'd be curious to see how effective that is! What's the name of the site?

jacquesm on Feb 17, 2009 | | [–]

okcupid, sign up to get a better look at their matching algorithm, it's based on asking people loads of questions.

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