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How OkCupid Sets You Up With The Perfect Match

Feb 14, 2013, 21:16 IST

OkCupid has become incredibly popular lately, as more people are flocking to the Internet to find love.

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But how does OkCupid do it?

The company relies solely on data and uses a matching algorithm to determine if people should go on a date, OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder said in a recent TED talk.

"The tricky part in designing it, though, was figuring out how to take something mysterious, human attraction, and break it into components that a computer can work with," he said.

Watch the full explanation below:

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