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  &lt;p&gt;The company hopes this will make&#160;its product search results more comprehensive than&#160;its rivals, as well as producing more relevant search results for shoppers. &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The results are visually appealing and easy to scroll through - product images are displayed next to each result, and there are a good range of &lt;a href="/blog/985-feature-filtering-what-is-it-and-why-do-you-need-it"&gt;filtering options&lt;/a&gt; provided to narrow down your searches. &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;TheFind has around 2m monthly users and, according to its website, crawls over 500,000 stores to&#160;list over 150m products. &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The funding round was led by&#160;Bain Capital Ventures and also included Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, both of which participated in the previous rounds. &lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;strong&gt;Further reading:&lt;/strong&gt;
    &lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;a href="/blog/1339-new-search-engine-focuses-on-paypal-merchants"&gt;New search engine focuses on PayPal merchants&lt;/a&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;Paragraph&gt;The results are visually appealing and easy to scroll through - product images are displayed next to each result, and there are a good range of &lt;Link URL="/blog/985-feature-filtering-what-is-it-and-why-do-you-need-it" Window="New"&gt;filtering options&lt;/Link&gt; provided to narrow down your searches. &lt;/Paragraph&gt;
  &lt;Paragraph&gt;TheFind has around 2m monthly users and, according to its website, crawls over 500,000 stores to&#160;list over 150m products. &lt;/Paragraph&gt;
  &lt;Paragraph&gt;The funding round was led by&#160;Bain Capital Ventures and also included Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, both of which participated in the previous rounds. &lt;/Paragraph&gt;
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    &lt;Emphasis&gt;Further reading:&lt;/Emphasis&gt;
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    &lt;strong&gt;US shopping search engine &lt;/strong&gt;
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    &lt;/a&gt;&#160;&lt;strong&gt;has received $15m (&#163;7.3m)&#160;in third round funding, bringing the total raised by the company&#160;to $26m (&#163;12.7m).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Unlike some other shopping search engines,&#160;TheFind searches products from as many sources as possible, not just from companies that have paid to be listed, though some sponsored links are included on the site. &lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;/Link&gt;&#160;&lt;Emphasis&gt;has received $15m (&#163;7.3m)&#160;in third round funding, bringing the total raised by the company&#160;to $26m (&#163;12.7m).&lt;/Emphasis&gt;&lt;/Paragraph&gt;
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