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  • Comparison Shopping Site TheFind Gets Into Social Commerce With Facebook Integration

    Leena Rao

    Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Monday, October 4th, 2010

    Comparison shopping site TheFind, which recently passed Yahoo to become the second most popular shopping site behind Google (according to comScore), is pushing its social commerce strategy today with an in-depth Facebook integration.

    TheFind’s newest social commerce feature, Shop Like Friends, allows you to sign into the site Facebook Connect and tap into the the tastes and preferences of any of your Facebook Friends, based on the stores and brands they ‘like’ on the platform. So when you sign on, TheFind requests access to the pages your friends have “liked” on Facebook, then maps the stores and brands it detects to over 40,000 different stores and brands on TheFind.

    It might sound a little creepy to source friend product recommendations this way but TheFind thinks this is the future of social commerce. The Like button isn’t new to product search or e-commerce; eBay has high hopes for Facebook’s ability to drive sales.

    Company: TheFind
    Website: thefind.com
    Launch Date: October 1, 2006
    Funding: $26M

    TheFind’s patented search, browse and discovery technology is expanding the eCommerce landscape through social, mobile and tablet commerce innovations. TheFind.com is a search destination where millions of shoppers are finding the best products from every online and local store. Leveraging the company’s unique ability to surface and categorize more than 500 million product offers from 500,000 stores along with their identifying attributes, TheFind is building the only comprehensive map of the merchandise, stores and brands that people “Like”. ...

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