Speed dating and Arranged marriages

I came to know about speed dating first through the books like "blink" .If you are not familiar with the idea of speed dating you can read it here.
Recently my cousin was telling his experience about his first "bride seeing".He said it lasted only for a few minutes..and he had to make a decision wether to go forward in such short time.Hearing this i felt there is something common between speed dating and bride seeing.

So what does speed dating have in common with arranged marriages?

By arranged marriage i mean the kind of marraige common among middle class families in our society where family or family friends brings an "alliance".Then after the scrutiny by the family the potential partners get a chance to meet and talk.Matter can be over by this meeting ,or it can go forward to chatting over phone and finally towards marriage.

In speed dating you only have a little time to decide wether you like your potential partner or not.And in this short time if you happen to like each other then you can take the relationship forward.For those "busy" people in west this saves time,but we have to remember that this kind of dating originated to facilitate jewish youth to find a partner from their own community.

Now think of "bride seeing" we have here( i assume that now a days boys and girls have equal say over their marriage).Given that compatibility issues regarding financial/"cultural" backgrounds (of respective families)have been resolved beforehand , the chance of getting right partner is higher.And we now see that It's not so wrong to select a mate with in a few minutes of the first meeting,Since researchers have ample proof to support the advantages of speed dating.

What do you say?