New Shopping Engine?

Anyone seen this yet?

[trinorthlighting]

My sites have recently been getting crawled and traffic from this newer search engine. Its a free shopping comparison site.

TheFind

[edited by: lorax at 2:01 pm (utc) on Nov. 12, 2006]
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[ItsAllBallBearings]

never heard of it, but hopefully they find us (no pun)

[trinorthlighting]

I think its one of the better sites, has some glitches in the photos, but this is a lot better than paying to get crawled like some of the other shopping sites...

[ItsAllBallBearings]

played aroudn on the site for a bit and it does seem to be fairly well conceived and applied. They do seem to give WAY too much weight to eBay listings though in some categories.

persaonlly, i'd rather pay for inclusion as i know that money will partially go to gain exposure for their site. There are so many shopper sites out there now that i'm not sure this one can differentiate enough to succeed. onyl time will tell...

[trinorthlighting]

Its unbiased, that is what I like.

[yulia]

I love it! My products got listed - all correct description and proper images. The items that I have on sale are marked with red tag "S" WOW!

[Compworld]

How do you search to see if your products from your sites are listed in thefind's results?

[hellraiser1]

this is free! no way

many of our products have been listed and a few sales from the site! - i thought this was an affiliate or a subsection of shopping.com or shopzilla.com

if this can remain free, they will definately have an edge because the other shopping sites are limited due to their overpriced PPC scheme. and fewer data feeds. In fact if many online merchants can get free placement on shopping mall sites like this, then they will stop paying through the roof for shopping.com, shopzilla etc. as it is just too expensive.

good layout too

[trinorthlighting]

Check your webstats to see if find crawled you. If they did go to the site and do some real specific searches for your products. When you find them there should be a link for all of the sellers items.

If your products are not crawled, there are some email addresses in the about us links, I would email them. I imagine that since they are new you could talk them into crawling your site.

[Wlauzon]

Q: What is Fatbot?
A: Fatbot is the web crawling robot for TheFind, Inc. It gathers data (e.g., HTML pages, CSS stylesheets, image files) from the web to build the index for our search engine. You can visit our site
Q: What is your crawler's HTTP user-agent string?
A: Fatbot.
Q: How often will Fatbot access my web site?
A: Fatbot is built to politely access your site. Fatbot attempts to access each web server no more than once every few seconds.

[edited by: Wlauzon at 4:16 pm (utc) on Nov. 12, 2006]

[Wlauzon]

They do seem to give WAY too much weight to eBay listings though in some categories.

I noticed that also.

I also saw products listed from at least two dead sites (or at least the companies are dead/out of business). Of course if a company goes under and leaves their site up for ages, not much you can do I suppose. It will probably stay up until the domain or host expires.

Overall pretty interesting for a beta. We have quite a few pages listed in it, but I see some other sites totally missing (which is OK, they are competitors). I wonder how it chooses what to crawl, or just random.