The move marks a new departure for Saongroup.com and potential new investment for Maybefriends.com, which has been in operation since 2004. Saongroup.com has operations in Ireland through Irishjobs.ie, jobs.ie and NIjobs.com. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Managing director of Maybefriends.com Jill McGrath said the purchase had a certain synergy to it and could be a match made in heaven for both sites. "Recruitment sites match people with jobs; dating sites match people with people, so they aren't all that different really," she told ENN.

The latest Internet dating site, recently launched in Palo Alto, is not one of them.

"It's not about marriage," said Alex Gurevich, co-founder of SayHeyHey.com, the first free all-video online dating site.

The new site eschews the typical format of online dating sites where users carefully word profiles and post photos "from 10 years and 20 pounds ago," Gurevich said.

Several men report being duped into sending romantic gifts and money to men posing as Russian brides on internet dating sites.

According to an investigation by Radio-Canada's La Facture program, the number of incidents involving Canadian men is on the rise.

Francis, 29, is a Quebecer who said he was scammed after falling in love with a blond Russian named Irina Gorachkina, whom he found on a dating website.

He said they started out exchanging neutral, friendly e-mails. "At first we talked about what we were like," he told Radio-Canada. "I told her I liked the outdoors, walking in the woods."

And athough I try not to air my consumer grievances here, I am writing this post to warn you about a practice that your knowledge of can save you some dollars.

OK, first let us go back a year. My love life, my dating life, was in a rough patch. (If you want details, you buy the next pitcher).

Not wanting to remain in the state I just referred to, I decided I would declare a jihad on loneliness. Being a creature of the Internet, I posted a profile on several dating sites including Yahoo! Personals.

My Match.com profile soon led to a happy result. That's her photo on the top of my CPU tower.

RCMP Const. Trent Richards admitted to having sex with women on at least 15 occasions while on duty at the rural detachment in Shawnigan Lake, B.C., on Vancouver Island.

Richards, 34, posted his profile on internet dating sites offering "sex with a hot cop" and posted a photo of himself in his red serge dress uniform on one site.

RCMP accused Richards of using force computers to pursue his extra-curricular activities.

Richards has been suspended with pay since January 2007.

The adjudication board decided Richards must resign within two weeks or be dismissed for "repeated on-duty sexual activity, as well as repeated misuse of RCMP information technology."