Mountain View, CA – July 26, 2007 – TheFind, Inc., a leading, comprehensive and unbiased discovery shopping engine that has become an online shopping destination for lifestyle goods, today officially launched four new widgets that provide direct access to its comprehensive index of over 170 million products consolidated from over half a million online stores. Bloggers now have multiple easy-to-use options to immediately monetize their existing editorial content and provide more value to their readers by linking posts about products directly to comprehensive and unbiased product search results on TheFind.com.

TheFind.com’s new widget offerings include:

1)    Shoplinks – a real estate-neutral tool that enables bloggers to easily monetize all posts about products by linking directly to TheFind.com’s product search results.

2)    Search Widget – a shopping search box that sits on a blogger’s site, and allows readers to directly search for products on TheFind.com.

3)    FindIt Widget – a pre-populated search link that can be added by the blogger to posts, and is especially useful alongside product images.

4)    Marketplace Widget – an instant marketplace of category-specific product search links, which the bloggers themselves can customize.

All four widgets provide unique methods to quickly add “drop and go” shopping search functionality to any site. Revenue from advertising placements on TheFind.com is shared with blog publishers, based upon the number of page views and click-outs driven from the blogger’s site. 
“TheFind.com widgets provide bloggers with content-targeted, comprehensive shopping search tools for their blogs, and open a whole new way of connecting actionable shopping to blog readers discovering new and innovative things,” said Siva Kumar, CEO of TheFind.com. “Because our search index is extremely comprehensive and our unbiased relevance ranking determines the best results, we believe that we are an ideal partner for bloggers wishing to maintain a reader-friendly, editorially unbiased and informative atmosphere. We are excited to offer a revenue earning opportunity that is much more fun, flexible and versatile than traditional banners or text advertisements and in fact, our widgets coexist with existing revenue options adding to the money that can be earned by the bloggers”
TheFind.com will introduce the new widgets at the BlogHer Conference, held at Chicago’s Navy Pier on July 27th and 28th, 2007.

                                                      
About TheFind.com
TheFind.com debuted in October 2006 as a discovery shopping engine that delivers a comprehensive, unbiased and visually compelling shopping search experience optimized for lifestyle goods. From the most popular e-commerce sites to the most unique brands, TheFind.com crawls the entire Web to find over 170 million products from over 500,000 stores.  By using its patent-pending “product ranking” technology, TheFind.com displays the best-selling products, styles, brands and stores for any shopping search right on the first page of results – saving you time and money.  TheFind.com, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is backed by the leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.thefind.com.

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For more information contact:
Hillary Houser, Sparkpr for TheFind.com
415-321-1877
hillary@sparkpr.com

At the risk of being boastful, I thought I would tell you that we receive a lot of love in the marketplace. We often get overwhelming responses from people and it makes us feel great! I’d like to share some of the love that we’ve received through talk@thefind.com.

If you have something to share with us, please "talk" to us anytime! We’ve told you several times that when you talk, we listen. And we do. You input (and love) doesn’t just go into a black hole, it goes to real people. And the real people (those of us at TheFind) actually talk back (in a nice way, of course).

Following are REAL emails that we’ve received (minus names and email addresses):

Your website is GREAT. It is straight to the point and very easy to use
unlike many others. I like that it is not crowded with other things. I will
spread the word about this website "thefind.com" Keep up the great
work.

This website is absolutely wonderful. A friend told me about it, and
I’ve been using it since. It is at the top of my FAVORITES list. Thank
you–Thank you–Thank you.

Wow your site is awesome!!! I just happened accross it and I am
impressed. I will be doing a lot of holiday shopping from thefind.com

This site is pretty much all I need! I will use it exclusively from now
on. Very, very nice!

This site is unbelievable. Everything from being organized to being
fast. I’ll help spread the word that this site should be the #1 place to shop
and search.

Your site is simply GREAT!

First, I like the site – most of the results are ‘true’, and I find that
I can find things I can’t find otherwise.

Awesome website…Waoh!!! I love the layout…   

This site is off to a GREAT start!

Your site is asthetically very appealing.

I love your website. Does your
company have any plans to go public?

This is amazing ! i’d love to work with your company somehow! you really
have something great started!

I hope you enjoyed reading these as much as we did! If you’d like to contribute your thoughts, please add a comment or email us at talk@thefind.com. We’d love to hear from you!

Happy Searching/Shopping,
Payton
 

Welcome!

Thanks for stopping by TheFind! Our first blog post is being written by me – Siva Kumar, co-founder and CEO. I and many of our team members are looking forward to posting here.

We’re
excited to launch this blog to personally speak with each and every one of you,
TheFind users, about our favorite topic, online shopping. We hope to cover a
gamut of topics – from industry trends, to specific thoughts on favorite
products, to debates and polls on the latest buzz in retail, to how we plan to improve
the search for shopping experience – all aimed at helping you efficiently shop
online; oh – and have loads of fun while doing it!

We
launched our beta on October 31^st, and have eagerly been reading all
of your feedback. Please keep it coming!
Based on your comments, we are busily adding new features and fixing current
bugs (admittedly, we aren’t ready to come out of beta yet…but we are diligently
working on getting there).

Since
day one, TheFind.com was built with real-life shoppers in mind. We spent a lot
of time talking to people like yourself, conducting focus groups, soliciting
input from avid online shoppers and reading research about online shopping and
searching habits – and have synthesized all of this knowledge into the design
of the technology and the site itself.

Why
did we build TheFind.com?

Comprehensive Shopping
Search

Consumers told us most of them start their online shopping at a search engine. We sat some folks down and asked them – why? The most common answer was that they
felt that till now, the only sites they could trust to find anything for sale
online was at Google or Yahoo!.

So we knew that being able
to reliably find just about anything for sale online is very important to you.

That’s
why we are striving hard to search each and every online store for all of the
products being sold. Today, we already search over 500,000 stores and find over
150 Million products (and counting!) – more than any other shopping search
site!

Unbiased and Relevant
Results

Research
also told us that shoppers who start at Google or Yahoo! often end up at
shopping comparison engines like Shopping.com or Shopzilla. We asked people –
did you know that these comparison engines only work with merchants that pay
them, and they rank products in the order of who pays them the most money? How do you feel about that?

The
most common answer was that they were not aware that they were simply looking
at a list of advertising. They all said that they would feel much better about
relevant listings that were ranked on true market popularity, not by how much
merchants paid.

So we knew that unbiased
& market-based relevant results are important to you.

That’s
why our patent-pending Product Ranking Engine ranks the top brands, products
and stores for your search right on the first page, based on our algorithms
that use market demand and supply – not based on paid advertising – making us
your trusted shopping ally.

Simple and Easy

Again
consumers were very vocal in telling us that shopping search needs to be simple
and easy to use. User feedback told us that an efficient user experience is key
– we showed them various designs and they loved this minimalist approach that
you now see on our site.

We learned that the
products should be the stars of the show, and that you should be able to easily
save and share your favorite products!

We
want to continue to ask for your help in making TheFind.com the very best
shopping search engine for you. So, we will never stop asking for input, and we
hope you will never stop telling us how to make this site the best one for you! Email us at talk@thefind.com anytime to give us your feedback.

Many
of TheFind.com team members will be posting their thoughts/questions here.
Thanks for checking us out and stay tuned for more…Happy Holidays & Happy
Shopping!

Siva