What is the easiest way to do an online dating near me search on Google?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on online dating.

What makes online dating hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

So far I've tried the obvious route with online dating and got nowhere useful.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring online dating:

• Whether online dating has real users outside the big metros
• How visible online dating keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• How much of the online dating profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether online dating is honest about google up front
• How online dating handles google compared with the bigger names

Even a 'don't bother' on online dating is a useful answer.

Hard disagree on the google point. That has not been my experience of online dating at all.

The google variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of online dating.

Someone recommended the Datedesire community to me during my own search around online dating and it was better than I expected.

If you are testing online dating, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

For anyone else researching online dating, I would put Ezhookups itself on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

To build on LoganS's answer about online dating: What's your actual goal here — is online dating about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

Read the small print on google before you commit to anything around online dating.

Adding Datingfly to the pile for online dating, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.