PayPal, The Find Present Shopping Search Engine
Jun 13th, 2007 by Brittany
Brett Tabke of Webmasterworld reported yesterday that Paypal has teamed up with The Find to create a shopping search engine for Paypal’s online stores.
Tabke’s post on Webmasterworld quotes a press release stating that http://paypal.thefind.com will allow consumers to search through online stores and “browse products exclusively from merchants who accept PayPal payments.” Rather than using traditional thumbnails or text links, search results will be displayed as catalog images, similar to the current results on The Find.
The most exciting part for e-Business users - as well as for searchers and consumers who ignore paid advertisements - is that merchants will not have to pay for their items to be listed on the co-branded shopping search engine. Instead, all results will be naturally indexed by the search engine’s “Fatbot” crawler.
Some Webmasterworld members expressed their dissatisfaction with the search results so far; however, the search engine is still in its infancy so it’s hard to say how accurate or widespread its search results will be at this time.
Owners of online stores can submit their website URL’s for inclusion here. There currently doesn’t appear to be a limit on the number of sites each merchant may submit.