WHAT WE FOUND: Visit Cherry Blossoms and begin your adventure as a single, widowed or divorced person into the dating world. You’ll find a simple 3 page membership form and you will be ready to receive emails from members around the world. Cherry Blossoms internet service starts where their leading marriage magazine left off, bringing instant communication to people locally and internationally. Their expertise in travel and visa services helps every man and woman to close the gap and bring their long distance penpal relationship to a fuller life of being together. We like the simplicity of Cherry Blossoms, you won’t get lost in unneeded and unused features here. As well, members are more marriage mended here than at most other services. Be sure to use your ad text to fully describe yourself, your work and life, hobbies as well as the person you feel would most fit into your life. Be descriptive and be yourself in the words you use.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Fast free membership that leads to your profile being available to other members. Only registered members can browse and search the profiles. Upgrade your membership to make contact and return messages from other members. Men looking for women and women looking for men only. Most members are marriage-minded.

WHAT WE FOUND: Going beyond simple database matching, Chemistry.com involves your whole person, especially the deep down inner you, using interactive and fun to answer questions that show you, and those you will meet, who you really are. Allow yourself about 45 minutes to complete the questions and your profile. We liked the structure of the questions and how completing your profile and allowing the Chemistry.com compatibility to work takes you from matches, to introductions and through email contact into the first face-to-face meetings of other members. It’s interesting to note that you do not search for other members, you let the Chemistry.com system directs you through meeting your matches in 4 guided steps. The communication process consists of four separate stages: Stage One: Relationship Essentials; Stage Two: Short Answers; Stage Three: Email; Stage Four: In-Person Meeting.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join (take advantage of the 7 day free trial, cancel prior to the end of the free trial period to avoid paying the upgrade membership fee) and start the Chemistry.com compatibility match process, you will receive up to 5 matches every day. Only paid members can contact other members.

WHAT WE FOUND: Chnlove has 16 agencies in China that service the women on the web site that are interested in meeting you. No anonymous profiles listed here, just single Chinese women that you can meet and find love. Begin your visit with a fast search to browse the profiles or join for free right away. Your free account offers lets you browse through all of the available profiles and also have your own profile made available in the offices of Chnlove in China where the ladies can write to you for free. Premium membership allows you to make first contact with the ladies as well as includes their special EMF service. This phone informing email forwarding services allows for fast communication between you and your ladies, often with only a day or two between letters being sent and replies received. Other services available include letter and speech translations, gift ordering and travel and visa information.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Largest web service with Chinese ladies photo profiles. Free membership includes your profile in their offices, purchase credits to initiate contact with the ladies.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join, post a profile, post photos and videos, basic search, and receive mail. Must be a paid members to do advanced searches, add an additional personality profile, send and receive unlimited to messages to both free and paying members, instant messaging or chat, and receive higher rank in searches. Nicely laid out profiles. Nicely laid out account page.

WHAT WE FOUND: A great site to catch up with/find old classmates and co-workers. Create in-depth profiles where you can add “then” and “now” pics and create a photo gallery; include bios about your life, school and work; announcements, Q & A and favorites. You can see who is missing from your class, join communities to find friends and send Classmates Email that Gold members can read. If you join as a Gold Member, you can also post on message boards, send Classmates Email to anyone, read all of your Classmates Email, read bios and Q&As, view profile photos, see who left names on your profile, reply to Quicknotes, view announcements on profile, send announcement alerts and plan reunions/events. You can also receive member rewards, benefits and discounts to thousands of shopping, dining and travel. Search by first and last name to find results that show school listings or do an advanced search to see results from college, work or military directories. Members who have changed their names are shown with their current last name first and former last name in parentheses. Classmates also provides their own dating service and you don’t have to join to see who has joined. Those who have signed up with Classmates Dating will have a red heart next to their profile.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Classmates.com has many features that allow this reunion, get-together and meet again service work well for people locally and around the world. Free memberships and Gold memberships available. Free membership allows basic access to the services, Gold membership allows you to contact, post and have unlimited access to all reunion-type features. Also integrated is the Classmates Dating service that helps you to find relationships, from old flames to old/new friends.

WHAT WE FOUND: Join for free and have a lot of features that other services charge you for such as: replying to messages and using the chat room. When joining be sure to agree to accept the newsletter that has info about discounts, local events and parties, you don’t want to miss out on anything. We found Cupid.com easy to navigate, fast to search through the profiles and full of features that are helpful to their members including the weekly advice column featuring Lisa Daily, author of “Stop Getting Dumped!” and the Date Planner suggestion questionnaire. Free members have full run of the service (free members can reply to messages only), use of the chat room and full search capabilities. Build up your match list and keep up-to-date with your contacts and matches on your “My Cupid” page and have matches automatically emailed to you so you don’t have to log in every day. We really like the feature that allows you to change your online member name, just in case you’re feeling a little different from when you signed up, changing your online name can awaken a whole new attitude and most services require that you re-join to change your online user name. Speed dating events available in many local areas. Check the website to see if there is a location near you.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free membership includes replying to messages, access to advice and chat room. Gold membership allows you to initiate contact. Straight and same sex personals.

WHAT WE FOUND: Women via webcam will make your fantasies come alive. Live chat included with all feeds. Personal, exotic and one on one for men. You can be a broadcaster or visitor. There are member premium services for watching and chatting and a signup for men and women to be broadcasters and earn money with their own live chat service. The internet comes alive with this service. You need to become a member to be a broadcaster but anyone can watch, pricing varies and many web broadcasts are free. Thousands of members and visitors makes this a fun, fantasy filled web service.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to become an exotic broadcaster, not much equipment is needed extra from what you have now except for a webcamera and a microphone. Dressup costumes and fantasy play accessories will make your broadcasts and visits a lot more fun. Free membership and many free live webcam feeds. Be sure to read the member terms when you visit for the first time.

WHAT WE FOUND: Canadian Personals begins their offer to you of a free trial to post your profile, search the personals and take a look around the online service. We were pleasantly surprised with all the features that are available to members, the member main menu conveniently organizes all of your member activities and messages in one place. You have access to all the features from one easy to use location. Features include: adding pictures to your profile, detailed information included about yourself as well as 5 essays that help you to describe yourself to other members including such questions as “describing your perfect day” and “three things you enjoy most doing”. The member search can be as detailed or general as you select which is a great way to find compatible members. There is an Ideal Match selection form that matches you effectively with other members and new members as they join and regular email messages sent to you of new members as they match your Ideal Match criteria. The free trial includes access to all features except those that allow you to communicate with other members. For the live chat, exchanging messages and answering greetings you need to be a premium member. Additional features include the ‘Color Code Personality Profile’ to help you understand yourself and your needs in a match as well as sending and receiving E-cards and smiles, seeing how many members are online and which member just completed a profile activity. We found the live chat room always busy, searches fast and accurate with best profile matches first, the service easy to get around and lots of activities that many larger dating services don’t offer.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free trial includes access to all features except communication with other members. A complete personals service with plenty of features that include personality profiles, a lengthy profile to help you describe yourself, live chat, Instant Messaging, E-cards, and a well-organized member area.

CHANGES WE'D LIKE TO SEE: (Suggested October 2004) The option of changing search results from high match percentage first to picture profiles first.

WHAT WE FOUND: Christian Singles goes beyond the usual dating service offerings and includes free web pages, forums, places to trade jokes, devotions and more along with honest personals from Christian men and women hoping to meet that special someone. Including a seven day free trial (no charges if you cancel within that time) you’ll have men and women from every state in America and many International locations to browse and search through to meet that special someone. The personal ads and web pages are free to browse and many of the web pages offer email addresses for you to make instant contact. Once you become a member, you can have a page made for you at no additional charge! Anyone can browse the personals, but for detailed information and to see pictures of members, you must sign-up. Christian Singles also offers free chat, greeting cards, articles, religious news and much, much more. Read our interview here.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Christian personal ads and web pages. Articles on bible study and devotions. Free 10 day free trial, member sign-up required. Contact can only be made by members. Christian Singles maintains a very high quality Christian service and I’m sure you’ll like it.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free membership when you add two photos with your profile, instant messenging, blogs, chat room and forums.