GlobalSpec Exceeds Three Million Registered Users

October 18, 2006; 07:23 AM
GlobalSpec, the leading specialized search engine, information resource and e-publishing company for the engineering, industrial and technical communities, today announced that it has surpassed the three million registered user mark, reinforcing its industry position as “the place” for engineering and technical professionals.

Over the past year, GlobalSpec’s registered user community has increased by 50 percent, growing from two million registered users in October 2005. Visitors to www.globalspec.com register for SpecSearch^®, GlobalSpec’s trademarked search technology, which allows them to search by specification more than 142 million parts in 1,900,000 searchable product families from over 21,000 supplier catalogs. SpecSearch offers users the ability to easily locate parts and services from manufacturers, distributors and service providers, while advertisers benefit from targeted branding and exposure, and highly qualified, intelligence-rich sales leads.

“Since 1996, GlobalSpec has been committed to providing the industrial community with relevant information that expertly maps to their workflow and supports productivity,” said GlobalSpec Chairman and CEO Jeffrey M. Killeen. “The aggregation of three million registered users – at the impressive current rate of 80,000 per month – illustrates the broad, deep acceptance of our search and database products as vital resources by these professionals. We are pleased that we have been able to help our user community with the work-related challenges they face, resulting in our impressive growth in registered users.”

In addition to SpecSearch, GlobalSpec offers visitors to the site access to other products designed to help them perform key job tasks accurately and productively. More than 55 product-centric e-newsletters are available in topics ranging from chemical engineering to nano technology, with a combined subscriber base of over 2.5 million. GlobalSpec also offers The Engineering Web^®, a vertical search engine comprised of more than 250 million pages of technical content.

GlobalSpec, Inc. (www.globalspec.com) is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, technical and industrial communities. GlobalSpec users benefit from domain-expert search engines, a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content and 55 product-centric e-newsletters – helping them search for and locate products and services, learn about suppliers and access comprehensive technical content. SpecSearch®, GlobalSpec’s trademarked search technology, allows users to search by specification more than 142 million parts in 1,900,000 product families from more than 21,000 supplier catalogs. For suppliers, GlobalSpec offers highly filtered sales and marketing opportunities, product promotion and brand advertising platforms, and a wide range of e-media advertising and marketing solutions.