IMHO the real problem with online dating is that it's explicit. You need to go hunting for others, set up your profile etc. Imagine a world where nobody is con

IMHO the real problem with online dating is that it's explicit. You need to go hunting for others, set up your profile etc. Imagine a world where nobody is concerned about privacy. After a while, your search engine of choice infers from your search queries that you don't have a girlfriend, and occasionally shows you a message along side the result page, telling you about a girl who has search for several similar topics than you have, roughly your age and living not too far from you. She'll get a similar message, and if you both agree, a communication channel of some sort will be made available. Don't reject the idea as being creepy. It might sound creepy, but it could actually work. Search engines know a lot about you, and might find matches without you having to set up a profile, and mostly bypasses the incentive to lie in order to make you look more attractive. Oh and of course it wouldn't just work for dating, but also for finding friends in general. If I had a job at Google, I'd love to try my hand at prototyping such a thing.