Free service provides consumers easy access to tens of thousands of PayPal
Merchants
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- TheFind, Inc.
(http://www.thefind.com) today announced the launch of
http://paypal.thefind.com, a new shopping search engine built specifically
to enable consumers to browse products exclusively from merchants who
accept PayPal payments.
Just like results on TheFind.com, products will be shown to PayPal
customers as visually compelling catalog-like images, not simply text links
or thumbnail images. Unlike traditional comparison shopping sites,
merchants will not have to pay for their products to appear in search
results on http://paypal.thefind.com; instead, products from PayPal
merchants will be indexed and become part of the natural search results.
"Since TheFind.com launched in October, our mission has been to deliver
the best discovery shopping experience online that addresses real consumer
needs," said Siva Kumar, CEO and co-founder of TheFind.com. "We are pleased
to bring our service to PayPal customers. We look forward to providing an
outstanding shopping experience that connects them to the products they
want from merchants who accept PayPal."
Additional advertising opportunities outside of the algorithmically
ranked results will be available to merchants. These identified "sponsored"
areas will provide merchants the ability to showcase additional promotional
or branding messages to PayPal customers, while making it clear that those
results are paid placements.
"By working with TheFind.com, our customers have access to a unique
online shopping experience. We are committed to providing our customers
with safe, simple and secure ways to shop online," said Gene Alston,
business development director at PayPal. "Today's announcement gives
merchants a new way to reach these customers and do more business with
them."
About TheFind.com
TheFind.com debuted in October 2006 as a discovery shopping search
engine that delivers a comprehensive, relevant and visually compelling
shopping experience optimized for lifestyle products. Unlike traditional
comparison shopping sites, TheFind.com provides the largest product
selection emphasizing leading styles, brands and stores and the ability to
browse and search for similar items. TheFind.com crawls the entire Web,
using its "Product Ranking Engine" technology to rank more than 170 million
products from more than 500,000 stores. The result is that any search will
return custom-catalog results where consumers can search-to-browse and
intelligently navigate the web's massive product offerings. TheFind.com,
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is backed by the leading venture
capital firms Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. For more
information, visit http://www.thefind.com.
SOURCE TheFind.com
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Related links:
http://www.thefind.com
http://paypal.thefind.com
CONTACT:
Jacqueline Tanzella, +1-415-321-1889,
jacqueline@sparkpr.com, or Hillary Houser, +1-415-321-1877,
hillary@sparkpr.com, both of Sparkpr for TheFind.com
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