Posted By Industrial Web Solutions Marketing Team on March 18, 2010

Launched in beta almost a year ago, the new industrial search engine Industrial Web Search is really shaping up to be a great asset to industrial and commercial sourcing professionals.

Promising accurate, quality search results, the search engine has a unique structure that has done away completely with legacy category search. No more guessing under what category you may find the product or service you need. With this search engine the keywords and phrases you type are matched exactly with the keywords and phrases the seller members have used to “tag” their content. Accurate matches are made simply by delivering a list of suppliers whose tags match what you type. So if you are looking for ‘industrial cameras’ only the seller members who have used ‘industrial cameras’ as a tag will appear in the results.

But don’t worry if you can’t think of the exact term to search with. As you start typing in the search box, a list of tags used by member sellers that seem to match what you are looking for appear below. You can easily select one from the drop-down to generate a search result. You can even refine your search further by adding additional terms or selecting the state in which you need the supplier to offer service. There are built-in tools to help you do these things and they’re really easy to use.

Industrial Web Search has a few more features that make it stand out from the rest. First of all, the only way a seller can get listed in the engine is to become a member. The search engine is not pre-populated with unknown companies from the internet. Only companies with whom the search engine has a professional relationship can appear. This means both accurate and quality search results for sourcing professionals who no longer have to wade through pages and pages of irrelevant, low quality results looking for a potential candidate.

And it’s convenient too! Available on both a desktop/laptop or a web-enabled handheld device like your iPhone or Smartphone, this multi-platform search tool allows you to conduct a search wherever you need to, including while you’re standing on the plant floor staring at one of your machines that has broken down and needs a special part fast!

Whether you’re searching from your desktop at the office or your mobile phone on the job site, the search engine helps to put industrial and commercial sourcing professionals in contact with relevant suppliers. To that end, once you have completed your search and clicked on a link, it leads you to the Company Profile where you can learn enough to know whether you have found a good match and initiate contact right then and there from within the application.

With active one-click communications (you do have to have an ISP, email and VoIP service provider) you can send emails and place a call from your web-enabled device. So if you’re searching from your iPhone and you want to click to call, no problem. You’re all set to do that already. Depending on the level of seller membership, you can even send an RFQ from within the application.

The best thing to do is start using it!  Visit Industrial Web Search for Desktop/Laptop or Industrial Web Search for Mobile and see for yourself. Remember, the tool is still new and not pre-populated with random companies so it continues to expand with its growing membership.

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