Site Summary:

Yahoo has been around since the internet became popular in the early 90's.  Their search engine and news portal is trusted by millions of people.  With Yahoo! Personals, you can give them that same trust.  With well over 10 million members with profiles, Yahoo! Personals can give you the connection singles are looking for.

How does it work?  Singles have different dating priorities so Yahoo decided to to let you choose from two services: Yahoo! Personals, for the fun-seeking casual dating or, Yahoo! Personals Premier which is for singles searching for a lasting, long term relationship.  

  Here are the features of the two services at a glance:

Yahoo! Personals starts at $24.95 a month while Yahoo! Personals Premier costs $39.95 a month.  You will save more money every month if you go for a 3 or 6 month plan.

This dating service has been designed with the idea of simplicity.  There is not a large amount of information that needs to be entered for yourself so you can create your profile quickly and start searching for the perfect partner.  Searching is setup in a pleasing way allowing you to hide the advance options you do not need.  Saving of searches is also a big help for when you want to log into the site quickly, just to see if there is anyone new that has signed up that meets your criteria.

Yahoo! Personals is a popular Matchmaking site with both Canadians and Americans.  There was over 7.2 Million Unique Canadian visits to Yahoo! Personals in 2003.  Canadians can purchase a subscription in Canadian dollars which is a rarity among Dating sites.

Positive Features

• Over 13 different international sites. Setup for the countries language and culture.
• Very large database of members
• Allow sorting of your search results by when they had last logged on (a very useful feature).
• Easy to join and use.
• Yahoo is a trusted name brand.

Negative Features

• Some sponsored links at the bottom of your singles search results. Not sure if they are still there with paid membership.