GlobalSpec

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GlobalSpec
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Type of businessSubsidiary
Founded1996
Headquarters
Albany, New York
[[Organizational founder|FounderTemplate:Pluralize from text]]John Schneiter, Thomas Brownell, Andrea Schneiter and Mark Gaulin
IndustryInformation technology
ServicesSoftware and technology services, vertical search
RevenueUS$10–50 million
Employees201–500[1]
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GlobalSpec is a technology services company which provides a search engine of engineering and industrial products, indexing over 180 million parts divided into 2,300,000 product families, from over 24,000 manufacturer and distributor catalogs.[2] GlobalSpec is a domain-specific (or "vertical search") 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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[citation needed][when?] GlobalSpec has partnerships with several well-known companies, including:

SolidWorks which is a product of Dassault Systèmes has embedded access to GlobalSpec's search engine inside its computer-aided design software.

Warburg Pincus sold GlobalSpec to IHS in 2012 for $135 million.[8]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) acquired GlobalSpec from IHS in 2016.[9]

GlobalSpec was acquired from the IEEE by Compare Networks Inc. on July 31, 2020.[10]

In March 2026, GlobalSpec and TREW Marketing, with collaboration from Elektor, released a joint State of Marketing to Engineers report.[11]

See also

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GlobalSpec". Companies. LinkedIn Corporation. Archived from the original on 2009-05-10. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GlobalSpec, Inc". Bizjournals.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Battelle, John (March 30, 2004). "GlobalSpec: Domain Specific Search and the Semantic Web". Searchblog. Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Devin, Amber (Jan 22, 2008). "GlobalSpec Achieves Record Results in 2007". Reuters. Business Wire. Archived from the original on May 8, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.D'Errico, Richard A. (August 7, 2001). "GlobalSpec partners with AltaVista". The Business Review. American City Business Journals, Inc. Archived from the original on 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ISA Announces Partnership With GlobalSpec". International Society of Automation. October 25, 2005. Archived from the original on May 8, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SolidWorks Corporation embeds 'The Engineering Web' in 3D mechanical design software". SolidWorks Corporation. Feb 14, 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."IHS to Buy Engineering Site GlobalSpec From Warburg Pincus". Wall Street Journal. June 12, 2012.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."IEEE Acquires GlobalSpec and the Engineering360 Platform from IHS to Create Powerful New Resource for the Global Engineering Community". IEEE. April 29, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GlobalSpec acquired by San Francisco firm, renegotiates lease in SUNY Poly's ZEN Building". Albany Business Review. Sep 30, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2026 State of Marketing to Engineers: Where Technical Buyers Turn for Answers, and Who They Trust". Elektor. 2026-03-30. Retrieved 2026-05-07.

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