TheFind launches “buying engine,” product search from 500,000 stores
TheFind, a Mountain View, Calif-based startup that applies machine learning and semantic search to shopping, says comparison buying sites only skim the surface of all the millions of products out there on the web.
So it’s launching a “buying engine” today that crawls half a million… Continue Reading
Startup TheFind buys startup Glimpse
TheFind, a comparison shopping search engine, has bought a smaller startup called Glimpse, a shopping site targeting women, for an undisclosed amount.
Mountain View-based TheFind, which launched last fall, is trying to deliver better shopping search results to users, featuring the items they most want to… Continue Reading
TheFind, the clean shopping search engine, raises $15M more
TheFind is a comparison shopping search engine that is unusually clean — it doesn’t ask merchants to pay for their products to show up in results. TheFind’s traffic is growing.
This purity is one reason it has just won $15 million in fresh backing from big-name… Continue Reading
Roundup: Geomas’ geo-search patent, Google’s privacy, YouTube filters, and more
Here’s the latest (updated) action:
Geomas says it has location-based search patent — The London based company says its patent is being infringed upon by some 20 large internet players, and this probably includes Google and Yahoo. Here’s a description of the patent. The company says it… Continue Reading
Thefind, the search engine, not as clean as we thought
Thefind is cleaner than most comparison shopping engines, we wrote last week, because it doesn’t ask merchants to pay for their products to show up in Thefind’s results.
However, Thefind is not as clean as we were led to believe.
In conversations over the past two weeks,… Continue Reading
The courtesan sisters of comparison search, and Thefind
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If you’re searching to buy a product online, there’s no single “branded” engine that stands out — and for a reason. All of the major shopping engines sites have sold out to advertisers.
This may represent a grand opportunity: If a Google-like search engine emerges… Continue Reading