greenbush new york founder s john schneiter and thomas brownell key people jeffrey m. killeen chairman and ceo john schneiter co founder and director william hollyer chief financial officer stephen macminn chief technology officer 1 industry information technology services software and technology services vertical search revenue us 10 50 million employees 201 500 2 website http www.globalspec.com 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 . 3 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 . 4 the website has over five million registered members and as of 2009 membership was growing at a rate of 20 000 per week membership required to view simple product specifications . in 2007 the company achieved 35 % revenue growth the sixth year in a row that the company achieved double digit revenue growth . 5 the website has approximately 3.8 million visitors a month . 6 globalspec has partnerships with several well known companies including altavista 7 the institute of electrical and electronics engineers ieee 8 the international society of automation isa 9 mcgraw hill 6 solidworks 10 solidworks has embedded access to globalspec s search engine inside its computer aided design software . warburg pincus sold globalspec to ihs in 2012 . 11 ieee acquired globalspec from ihs in 2016 . 12 see also edit vertical search list of search engines references edit globalspec inc. . software and technology services . businessweek . december 26 2008 . retrieved 2008 12 26 . globalspec . companies . linkedin corporation . retrieved 2008 12 26 . globalspec inc. . bizjournals.com . archived from the original on february 10 2009 . retrieved 2008 12 26 . battelle john march 30 2004 . globalspec domain specific search and the semantic web . searchblog . retrieved 2008 12 26 . devin amber jan 22 2008 . globalspec achieves record results in 2007 . reuters.com . business wire . retrieved 2008 12 26 . a b globalspec partners with mcgraw hill professional . submit express . august 23 2007 . retrieved 2008 12 26 . d errico richard a. august 7 2001 . globalspec partners with altavista . the business review . american city business journals inc. retrieved 2008 12 26 . deis louise november 27 2007 . globalspec announces expanded partnership with the ieee . engineering library blog . princeton university library . retrieved 2008 12 26 . isa announces partnership with globalspec . international society of automation . october 25 2005 . retrieved 2008 12 27 . solidworks corporation embeds the engineering web in 3d mechanical design software . solidworks corporation . feb 14 2005 . retrieved 2008 12 26 . m & a june 13 2012 ieee acquires globalspec and the engineering360 platform from ihs to create powerful new resource for the global engineering community . ieee . april 29 2016 . retrieved 2016 04 29 . external links edit official website cr4 the engineer s place for news and discussion retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title globalspec & oldid 738971479 categories internet companies of the united statescompanies established in 1996marketing companies of the united statesdomain specific search engineshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 01 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view