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Plentyoffish.com Rings True With Online Daters
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- - Plentyoffish.com takes official top rank as North America and the U.K.'s favorite Internet dating site. Plentyoffish.com is now the official #1 online dating site in both the USA and the UK according to Hitwise* and is quickly gaining the reputation for being the site where people meet their true love. At least that's the case in San Diego, California. Robbins Brothers Jewelers is the world's biggest engagement ring store and home to Greg Guerin, diamond consultant. While helping happy couples pick out the stones for the most important ring they'll ever buy, Greg discovered an interesting trend. "I sell rings to people getting engaged and I like to ask people how they met." He says, "more and more couples are meeting on the Internet, and last month more couples met on POF than Match. Hardly anyone comes in from eHarmony." At first Greg just thought this was an interesting bit of trivia, but after seeing Markus Frind, The Founder of Plentyoffish.com on the cover of January's Inc. Magazine, he wanted to give the Internet upstart some added perspective on the good things that his site is doing for people looking for love, so he sent him an email that turned into this story. "The notion that people have to pay a dating site big money to meet somebody is outdated." Says Frind, "the truth of the matter is that POF.com offers people the chance to meet and interact with over ten million singles without having to add more to their credit card debt. When our members meet someone on the site, they still have some money for the actual date. That can be a pretty big challenge in this economy." *Hitwise Competitive Intelligence ranks Plentyoffish.com as the top dating site in the USA and UK by market share of number of visits in February 2009. About Plentyoffish Created and founded by Markus Frind in 2003, Plentyoffish.com changed the face of the online personals industry by showing singles that they don't have to pay for love. Driven almost entirely by word of mouth referrals, Plentyoffish has quickly grown to be the #1 dating site in the USA, Canada and the UK (rankings available at OnlinePersonalsWatch.com). Every day more than 1 million singles log in to Plentyoffish.com around the world.
