Facebook shops for ads tech – snaps up product search engine TheFind

They say - to do even more for consumers

but do they mean

to do even more TO consumers

Is all that help really needed, most of us probably have a fair idea what is out there in the market and are quite able to search ourselves.

Hmm...ambiguous?

"...Facebook to do even more for consumers."

But I don't want them to "do" me.

So....

Company 'A' located in a Town buys another comany('B') that is located in the same town.

Colour me cynical but could 'B' have located itself close to 'A' just to make purchase this more attractive?

6 months from now, the employees will have been absorbed into the Borg. All that means is that they'll have to turn left at the last stop light on their commute rather than turning right.

Now if it was something like

Company 'A' that has it's HQ in California has bought company 'B' that is located in a remote town some 500 Km from Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

Then IMHO, a few more people might take anything more than a passing interest.

Never heard of "TheFind" before now, but just tried using the search engine and it actually doesn't seem to be entirely useless for doing price comparisons (I like it better than Google Shopping at least).

But that seems the norm these days—i.e., useful services being bought out/shutdown by larger tech moguls who are apparently driven to disrupt anything that doesn't directly contribute to their own ad-based revenue schemes, etc.

The Find is utter rubbish so it will go well with Farcebook, fairly often when searching for a specific product, The Find has popped up in the results and to date it only looks for similar words in your search and NEVER any relevance, a smart search engine it is not.