TheFind

TheFind is a vertical search engine whose mission is to help every shopper find exactly what they want to buy, and to help every merchant, large and small, reach those shoppers.

Consumers can shop it all with TheFind every product from every store, along with comprehensive sale, coupon and discount information to find the lowest price, the best deal, the perfect gift or that hard-to-find item. TheFind delivers everything that online shopping, local shopping, and green shopping have to offer, with over 320 million products from more than 500,000 stores and online merchants, universally accessible through TheFind.com, TheFind Mobile, and TheFind iPhone App. TheFind Inc., is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and backed by leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

They acquired Glimpse.com a high-fashion shopping site with a heavy female demographic. The acquisition will provide TheFind.com with a larger female audience and more high-fashion products in their search results. Glimpse.com will stay as a standalone site but will have its shopping search engine powered by TheFind.

TheFind.com has over 500,000 stores with over 320 million products. The site uses a crawler to comb popular e-commerce sites and also to find unique brands in hard to find spots.

An interesting thing about TheFind.com is that they dont ask merchants to pay for their products to show up in TheFind.coms results. This strategy has seemed to serve them well as they have over eleven million unique visitors.

Shopping search competitors include BizRate, Froogle, Yahoo Shopping and mySimon.