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12Mar/070

OkCupid Users Answer 200 Millionth Question

After three years battling the myriad of other free web dating sites, one of OkCupid's users answered a question that propelled the online dating website to a new high: two hundred million questions answered.

OkCupid is a test-based free web dating site, similar to eHarmony, where potential matches answer questions about their lives, preferences and love criteria to determine partnership potential. However, eHarmony's questions are based around the company's complex and highly-secretive matching system, whereas at OkCupid, the users themselves create the questions.

In fact, more than ten thousand questions have been created by these same users (just shy of two million strong), answerable by anyone who signs up for the totally free dating site.