Today, the industry is dominated by the likes of Match.com, owned by the media entrepreneur Barry Diller, and eHarmony, which was founded in 2000 by Neil ClarkWarren, then a 66-year-old psychologist.
It was launched, in 2000, by Neil ClarkWarren, a clinical psychologist who had spent three decades treating and studying married couples and working out theories about what made their marriages succeed or fail.