Online Dating Ratings
Features
19.5/20
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Credibility
19/20
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Safety
8.5/10
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Ease of Use
9/10
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Pricing
8.5/10
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Overall Grade:
92%

Yahoo! Personals has everything you might expect from a leading edge enterprise like Yahoo! Its Canadian personals programs come with more bonus features than you're likely to find anywhere else, including dating and relationship advice, articles and tips, an online magazine, personality tests, and gift subscriptions. If sheer quantity of potential friends, dates, and partners is what you're after, then you need look no further than Yahoo!Personals. No other site can or ever will compare to Yahoo! Personals member pool in terms of sheer volume.

Yahoo!Personals may also be the safest and most reliable dating site out there. Yahoo!Personals has worked long and hard to establish its reputation for honesty, trustworthiness, and reliability of services. Yahoo! Personals is one of the only sites that screens its members which, for some people, is reason enough to choose Yahoo!Personals. For others, it may be the unique and unconventional relevance of the questions Yahoo! Personals asks in coming up with matches, such as whether you want kids (or more kids than you already have), what kind of persona you exhibit in social situations, your television habits, and what kind of lover you are.
Features
Features

Yahoo! Personals caters to the following relationship types:

  • Heterosexual
  • Homosexual
  • Bisexual
  • Dating/Romance

Yahoo!Personals services Canada.

Yahoo! Personals free membership allows you to:

  • Create a profile
  • Browse and search profiles
  • Flirt using a free Icebreaker message
  • Take a Relationship Test
  • Take a Personality & Love Style Test

Yahoo! Personals Premier members also get:

  • Relationship Fit Ratings
  • The ability to Rate your matches in order to hone and improve results
  • The option to choose only to allow other Premier members to search your profile
  • The option to Search all other Premier Subscribers
  • Saved Profiles
  • Hidden Profiles

Search Functionality/Options:

  • Browse by Province
  • Basic Search:
    • Gender
    • Age range
    • Location (with geographic proximity search)
    • Option to show profiles with photos only
    • Body Type (optional)
    • Ethnicity (optional)
    • Education Level (optional)
  • Advanced Search (includes Basic Search criteria plus):
    • Eye colour
    • Hair colour
    • Marital status
    • Have kids
    • Want kids or more kids
    • Education level (at or beyond)
    • Employment status
    • Profession
    • Income level (at or above)
    • Smoke
    • Drink
    • Current living situation
    • Social persona (i.e., "life of the party", "homebody", etc.)
    • TV habits
    • Languages spoken
    • Religion
    • Personality type
    • Love Style

Members can save various combinations of search criteria by giving it a Search Name.

  • Receive Matches by Mail—sent to your email inbox
  • One-Click Matches—Yahoo!Personals makes matches for you
    • We Match—mutual matches which are made based on the compatibility of user profiles ("About Me") and match criteria ("About My Match")
    • I Match—matches are made based on how well you fit other members' match criteria, showing you who out there is looking for someone just like you
  • Keyword Search—enter one or more keywords to find prospective matches based on the attributes, information, and qualities that matter to you most
  • See "Who's Viewed Me"
  • "See if you're fit" helps you easily compare any member's criteria to your own

Member Interactivity:

  • Icebreakers—send and receive these
  • Private web-based email accounts
  • Instant Messenger

Credibility
Credibility

Yahoo!Personals has been online since 1996 and has around 10 million members.

Safety
Safety

Yahoo! Personals does screen members by way of reviewing their profiles for objectionable material or items that violate member guidelines. For member safety, Yahoo! Personals adhere to a "5-Star" system:

  1. Member Controlled Privacy—allowing only other members to contact members
  2. Profile Screening
  3. Mandatory Membership—guests must become at least free members after viewing a single profile
  4. Community Reporting—like a "neighborhood watch" program of member involvement
  5. Member Education—articles, tips, advice, and tests that empower members to have the safest online dating experiences possible

Yahoo! Personals makes all its members adhere to a 6-point Code of Conduct, promising:

  • To be single
  • To be honest and respectful
  • To do their best to present their true selves in both words and pictures
  • To refrain from being abusive or posting offensive material
  • To abide by all Yahoo!Personals Guidelines
  • To help identify members who don't adhere to and abide by the Code of Conduct

Ease of Use
Ease of Use

Yahoo! Personals is easy to use. Subscribers simply:

  1. Browse profiles
  2. Create your own profile
  3. Contact potential dates

Pricing
Pricing

Yahoo! Personals Premier Membership Plan:

  • $29.95 for 1 month
  • $64.95 for 3 months
  • $89.95 for 6 months

Yahoo!Personals does offer a 7-day Free Trial Membership—all guests must become members after viewing their first profile, but the 7-day free trial makes it easy. No refund policy can be found on Yahoo!Personals.