Industrial Web Search – Keeping Industrial Search Simple

In my last post, Industrial Sellers Finding Success with Industrial Web Search, I explained the benefits to sellers of this affordable industrial search engine online marketing tool. Now I wanted to give buyers and sourcing professionals a closer look at all the helpful features the tool offers them.

Bottom line – conducting a search in Industrial Web Search is simple. Sellers identify their products and services to you, the buyer, using keywords and phrases known as tags. As you type what you’re looking for in the search box, the engine suggests tags found in the system that contain your words. The system is designed to deliver 100% accurate results by making an exact match. If it cannot, it will show you Related Tags that may be what you’re looking for.

Since our member base is still growing, we respect the buyer enough to know we may not be able to make an exact match with every search. We don’t want you to have to waste any time, so our developers came up with a solution. Knowing that you probably would have used one of the major search engines anyway, we have integrated Google, Yahoo and Bing to help you when we cannot. Our system automatically adds your search term to the query box. All you have to do is select an engine and click search. You don’t even have to retype your search phrase. You can’t get any better than that!

The major search engines are great, which is why Industrial Web Search offers them as a last ditch effort; however, results may very well be relevant to the terms you searched but not necessarily relevant to what you need. For example, if you search “machine vision,” in addition to the results listing companies that sell machine vision equipment and solutions, Google will deliver listing results for Wikipedia definitions, professional organizations, and educational programs. The company that can best serve you may be buried deep on page 207, that’s 2000 listings away from where you began your search.  If you search “machine vision” in Industrial Web Search, even if you don’t get an exact match, you’ll still get relevant suggestions for companies that supply machine vision equipment and solutions. The result is still more targeted and gets you closer to what you need in a shorter amount of time.

Industrial directories may require even more of your time. Still based on category search, they list hundreds and sometimes thousands of companies that fit into a category, however loosely, making it difficult for you to find those that are truly relevant to what you’re after. Industrial Web Search has done away with categories altogether. There is never a chance for an irrelevant listing result. When you use Industrial Web Search to search “forklift attachments,” for example, you’re going to get results for companies that supply forklift attachments. Period. Directories with an ‘attachments’ category list all companies that sell attachments. You may have to spend hours delving through irrelevant listings like ‘compressed air system attachments’ when all you want is ‘forklift attachments.’

Industrial Web Search also saves you valuable time by only providing quality listing information. Many industrial directories and search engines acquire companies from the internet or contact database services in an attempt to fill out the listing results. You’ll know this is the case when you see “Claim Your Listing” or “Is this your company?” beside the listing result. The problem with this approach is the company has not been vetted so the contact information may be outdated or the company no longer in business. Such misinformation represents a huge waste of your time. When you contact a member seller found in Industrial Web Search you can be confident it is in business, it offers what you are looking for, and the contact info is accurate. We are committed to patiently growing our database with qualified seller members who meet our criteria for paid inclusion.

Industrial Web Search is also designed to make your sourcing tasks easier in other ways. If you opt to become a Registered User, and you should because it is free, you get great features to help you manage your Favorites and communications. As a registered user, you get your own secure login and user Dashboard to do such things as: save a company listing to your Favorites; attach Notes to a particular company (maybe you spoke with a Rep and learned a few more things to help you in your decision-making process); download a company’s vCard containing its contact info to your contact manager; manage RFQs you sent through the application; manage a Page Sent that you shared with colleagues; and more. They’re great little tools, particularly as you begin to use the application to send RFQs to several companies at a time. You can always check here to see which companies you’ve contacted and when.

If you have a Skype, Google Voice or some other VoIP service account activated on your computer desktop or iPhone, for example, you will be able to click on a company’s phone number to place a call directly from within the application. Industrial Web Search was the first industrial search engine to integrate .tel, a service that allows for ‘click to connect’ communications to make a call, send an email, and download contact information. You can also click to connect with the company’s website or individual product web pages in some cases. The logical next step in search is contacting suppliers. To keep it simple and convenient for you, Industrial Web Search enables you to make these connections right from the seller member’s company profile page.

Available to use on your desktop or mobile device such as your iPhone or laptop, Industrial Web Search is worth checking out if you’re interested in saving time and frustrations. You’ll find many great features too numerous to mention here. It was designed to fulfill the specific needs of buyers and sourcing professionals, to ensure 100% accurate, quality results. By using the engine, you are ensuring the tool will continue to grow as you need it to.  Visit Industrial Web Search online or call 1-800-399-9859 to learn more about it.