TheFind
Selects Krillion to Augment Local Product Search Capabilities
Shoppers
can now obtain real-time, local product availability from more stores than ever
before
Mountain View, CA – February 28 , 2008 – Krillion™ (www.krillion.com),
the company that connects ready-to-buy online shoppers with local retailers,
has been selected by TheFind Inc. (www.TheFind.com) to power real-time, local
product-availability functionality for the product categories covered by
Krillion’s extensive index of retailers. TheFind.com is a leading shopping
search engine that quickly discovers millions of lifestyle goods—across the
fashion, home, beauty, electronics, sports and outdoor categories—from more
than 500,000 online retailers.
Last December, TheFind.com launched
an intuitive local search option, making it easy for shoppers to find which
stores in their local neighborhoods carry the products they are looking to buy.
This enhancement enabled consumers to search for specific products on
TheFind.com and then quickly determine locations and phone numbers of the
nearby retailers that carry those products. Now, with the integration of
Krillion, TheFind shoppers will also be able to check and confirm up-to-the-minute
local availability from some of the leading national retailers, especially
across the electronics category, and to also buy the product online before
driving up to the store location for pickup. This agreement gives consumers one
more reason to come to TheFind.com for online and offline shopping needs.
“For a variety of reasons and
especially in a number of key product categories, consumers prefer to search
online for desired items and subsequently pick those items up in person at a
nearby store. The trend toward researching online and purchasing offline has
accelerated in recent months with the introduction by retailers of more
in-store convenience services. Shopping search engines such as TheFind.com are
perfectly suited to provide Krillion’s local product search service to
consumers,” said Joel Toledano, co-founder and CEO of Krillion. “TheFind leads
its category by already making online and local shopping easy and visually
compelling, and we’re delighted that they’ve chosen Krillion to further enhance
that experience for their ready-to-buy consumers with real-time, local product
availability information.”
“We’re determined to continually
deliver even more ease, access and information to our shoppers,” said Siva
Kumar, CEO of TheFind Inc. “Remaining dedicated to that ideal means that we are
constantly looking for ways to enrich the shopping experience with services
that our customers desire. Through this relationship with Krillion we are able
to offer local product availability information from leading national
retailers, and can do so with increased accuracy – making the jump from online
search to local purchase the most convenient it has ever been for consumers.”
The evolving business and marketing
strategies of top e-tailers support the fact that consumers enjoy the ease of
online search to locate, research and price their products, and subsequently
pick up their desired merchandise at local outlets. Krillion has the most
experience connecting online shoppers with their local retailers, as the
company has created the world’s largest database of retailers and products, and
through its StockCheck™ technology provides search engine providers and other
web publishers real-time product availability information on thousands of
products across stores nationwide.
About
TheFind Inc.
TheFind Inc.(www.TheFind.com)
offers the leading shopping search engine that delivers comprehensive,
authentic and visually compelling results for products, specializing in the
lifestyle goods category. From the most popular e-commerce sites to the most
unique, hard-to-find brands, TheFind.com uniquely crawls the entire Web to find
more than 200 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 consumers time and money. TheFind Inc.
family includes leading fashion shopping website Glimpse (www.Glimpse.com),
which specifically caters to fashion-savvy shoppers searching for the latest
trends and hottest apparel products, and TheFindGreen (www.TheFindGreen.com),
which finds organic brands, green stores and environmentally friendly products,
all in one place. TheFind Inc. promotes shopping that gives back to the
community through its Color For A Cause campaigns, which have included
charitable beneficiaries such as The Susan G. Komen Foundation, Doctors Without
Borders and Global Green USA. TheFind Inc., headquartered in Mountain View,
Calif., is backed by leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures
and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
About
Krillion
Krillion Inc. is a premier provider
of local shopping search information, serving today’s ready-to-buy consumers
who research products online for purchase from retailers in their area.
Krillion’s mission is to transform the way consumers find and buy national
brands by simplifying the Web-to-store purchase process and delivering accurate
and timely comparison information on products, retailers, and stock
availability through Krillion search results and partner sites. The powerful
combination of our patent-pending Krillion Localization Engine, localized
search results covering over 10,000 products in 40,000 U.S. locations, and
unique, real-time StockCheck™ tool enables consumers to speed their
research-to-purchase process and take advantage of in-store pickup services offered
by many retailers near them. Through partnerships with manufacturers,
publishers and retailers, Krillion is extending its service to become the
leading provider of aggregated product, retail location, and availability
information on the Web today. Krillion was founded in February 2006 and is
funded by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Visit www.krillion.com to find the product you want to
buy, near you, right now.
Contacts:
Krillion:
Tim Cox | ZingPR tim@zingpr.com 650-369-7784 OR
Sherry Thomas-Zon Krillion, Inc. sthomaszon@krillion.com
650-965-0233
TheFind Inc:
Shaila Arora | Arora PR Shaila@arorapr.com 310-749-5006

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