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 31st, 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
We had a great time at BlogHer 2007! It was really cool to meet so many bloggers at one venue. What a treat! We had some really great conversations and gave away 100s of TheFind.com branded pens, shopping lists and t-shirts. It's too bad there wasn't enough time to meet everyone who attended the conference! We collected business cards from many of the bloggers who came by our table, but I know we missed a whole lot more than we collected. I've posted a link back to all those that we know came by our table. If you came by and want your link included, please comment below and I'll add you to the list. 
