You can’t watch as they smile, and that smile spreads up into their eyes and transforms their face into one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever seen – a thing that warms your heart and makes you realize you want to spend more time with the person. Unfortunately, the reality is nowhere near that fantasy.

To get some insight into what women go through on these dating websites, I pulled aside one of my family members who I knew had spent some time on these sites looking for her future spouse.

Few totally free dating sites offer a completely free service along with no advertisements, such as Ok Cupid.

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Okay, it’s time to have an open and frank discussion about the battle of the sexes and the dating game.

It’s far too complex, scary and difficult for mere mortals – so let’s bridge the gap by asking both men and women what doesn’t work when it comes to online dating Dating has gone digital.

After all, there is no one central "server" that runs all the websites in the world.

What I learned from carrying out an interview of a female and the interview of a male trying to dig into this intriguing subject was that using the Internet for dating is equally painful for men and for women, but for very different reasons.

Other dating sites offer only a short free trial to determine interest before asking the user to pay for the dating site's services.

The gross majority of the totally free dating sites online today make their money by using a lot of advertising, such as Plenty of Fish or Date Hookup.

But fortunately for us, they also count the websites visited by their automatic web-exploring "spider" software.

And in February 2007, the Netcraft Web Server Survey found 108,810,358 distinct websites.