What Do You Get When You Search For Single Christian?

Tonight, during some downtime, I Googled the term "single christian." I wanted to see if my blog would come up. It didn't, but then I didn't expect it would. What did come up wasn't too surprising, but it was a little disappointing.

At the top of Google's search results page are sponsored links. They were: Single Christian (www.loveandseek.com), Christian Dating (www.ichurch.com), and Top Christian Dating Site (www.zoosk.com/christian_dating). Along the side were more sponsored links. Some of those were eharmony.com, matchmaker.com, and chemistry.com with some others mixed in.

The top ten results fell out like this:

1. Christian dating service
2. Christian dating advice
3. Christian dating service
4. Topical sermon called "The Single Christian"
5. Christian dating service
6. Christian dating service
7. Christian dating service
8. Single Christian blog?
9. Christian dating advice
10. Christian dating service

Online dating services are generally shams. I'll write about my experiences with eHarmony in another post. As such, I'll bypass talking about dating services save to point out that of the top ten results listed, six of the ten, or 60% are geared to the online dating scene.

Site number 2 appears to be a sub page of a main site that deals with Christianity in general, but the single article that interested me was nothing more than a mishmash of Christianity compared to the world. No real resources for being a single Christian there--unless you want to STAY single!

Site number 4 is a sermon outline. It has a couple of interesting points, but no real resources other than the standard generalities of a sermon.

Site number 8 I couldn't look at due to the security we have at work.

Site number 9 is a site sponsored by about.com. I'm generally not a big fan of general information sites like these usually because they aren't written by experts, and usually not Christian experts when it deals with Christian subjects.

I think these search results are a pretty sad commentary on the condition of Christianity, singles, and deviousness. When the majority of the links that come up are dating service links, it says to me that there are a lot of Christian singles who don't want to stay that way who are being preyed upon by businesses offering to take their money in exchange for... what? As I said, I'll get back to that in another post. The other four don't really provide anything except stale platitudes that don't really help a Single Christian do anything except wonder if they shouldn't stay single. It's all pretty dismal.