GlobalSpec is a technology services company which provides a

search engine A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on World Wide Web, the Web in response to a user's web query, query. The user enters a query in a web browser or a mobile app, and the sea ...

of engineering and industrial products, indexing over 180 million parts divided into 2,300,000 product families, from over 24,000

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and

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catalogs. GlobalSpec is a domain-specific (or "

vertical search A vertical search engine is distinct from a general web search engine, in that it focuses on a specific segment of online content. They are also called specialty or topical search engines. The vertical content area may be based on topicality, medi ...

") tool, in that its focused domain allows for optimized results. Within product families, searches can be narrowed by selecting values for parameters that are specific to that product type. The website has over 8 million registered members, and as of 2009, membership was growing at a rate of 20,000 per week. In 2007, the company achieved 35% revenue growth, the sixth year in a row that the company achieved double-digit revenue growth. The website has approximately 1.3 unique million visitors a month with 2.8 million page views and an average of 4.9 minutes time spent. GlobalSpec has partnerships with several well-known companies, including: *

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* The

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(ISA) *

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* Dassault Systemes SolidWorks which is a product of

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has embedded access to GlobalSpec's search engine inside its

computer-aided design Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve c ...

software. Warburg Pincus sold GlobalSpec to

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in 2012 for $135 million. The IEEE acquired GlobalSpec from

in 2016. GlobalSpec was acquired by Compare Networks Inc. on July 31, 2020.

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