Meetic and Smartdate face online

For their Internet site for dating , Meetic and Smartdate not have the same budgets but must meet similar problems : engine relevant research, emailing tools , solid infrastructure , protection of certain data .... What are the solutions chosen by the historical actor and his challenger ?
SUMMARY
Meetic and Smartdate face online
Search engine , content filtering , personalized emailing and instant messaging tools and chat : dating sites must deploy technical solutions to meet the wishes of their members.
How to ensure the safety of a dating site ?
Mounted loads, protection of sensitive data safety dating sites is crucial.
The issue smartphones
Meetic and Smartedate , the choice of mobile OS is also pondered the method development .

Olivier Siegwart ( Meetic ) : We uses technology Pertimm . Nevertheless, we could benefit from features specifically designed for us. One that allows our members to seek others in a certain geographic areas, especially , was the result of a specific development.
Wissam Kahi ( Smartdate ) . We had initially outsourced the development of the engine, but we then réinternalisé . It is largely built on a house algorithm. We naturally enriched continuously .
One of its strengths is to take into account the views of other users . Amazon and other e-commerce sites have an engine with a similar feature : it allows the client to suggest a product that buyers of the same product also purchased .
" The trick is to integrate the time dimension in the engine " ( Smartedate )
We then also inspired by the technology that won the competition launched by Netflix. [ As a reminder, this site streaming video on demand promised $ 1 million to those who succeed in significantly improving the accuracy of predictions tastes of its customers. This is the algorithm of Bellkor company won , improving 10% the relevance of search engine results . Ed]
His trick is to integrate the time dimension into the engine. Tastes can indeed evolve over time , and ultimately it is the latest affinities that should take precedence over older ones. Bellkor then moved us to integrate their technology to our site, we are currently investigating .