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Those agencies exist, but they all use some algorithms as well, nobody is doing matchmaking by hand. Usually they charge quite a fee to throw your name into the ring, so there's a bit of a (positive) selection bias in the sense that you don't have too many bottom feeders in the pool, but that doesn't make the dating experience any less exhausting.
I'm still thinking that interest-based hobby groups are the best way to find someone like-minded. At least you know from the onset that the person has one thing in common with you...