Where do you find info online?
Where do you find info online?
(OP)
Just doing a poll to see if I am missing anything:
Where do you search for info at work?
just Google? or other SEs? Do you used advanced and boolean searches? or just type in a few words and go?
How many results pages so you typically look at?
Do you use Thomas Reg?
GlobalSpec?
EngNet?
Or other industry portals -such as?
Other?
Just curious how much you use Globalspec? Could you put a percentage to it? Of times you search to help with purchasing decisions, how much do you use GlobalSpec?
If you use GlobalSpec, do you use the regular Engineering Web Search, or the Product Search where you can type in your specs to find matching providors? Can you tell me a little bit about how you use GS, if not as described above?
My company is looking at paying to list there (GS), and they asked me to ask some engineers what they think of it :)
thanks!!!
Where do you search for info at work?
just Google? or other SEs? Do you used advanced and boolean searches? or just type in a few words and go?
How many results pages so you typically look at?
Do you use Thomas Reg?
GlobalSpec?
EngNet?
Or other industry portals -such as?
Other?
Just curious how much you use Globalspec? Could you put a percentage to it? Of times you search to help with purchasing decisions, how much do you use GlobalSpec?
If you use GlobalSpec, do you use the regular Engineering Web Search, or the Product Search where you can type in your specs to find matching providors? Can you tell me a little bit about how you use GS, if not as described above?
My company is looking at paying to list there (GS), and they asked me to ask some engineers what they think of it :)
thanks!!!





RE: Where do you find info online?
RE: Where do you find info online?
Buy a dictionary, keep it nearby and USE it. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English is recommended, and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
RE: Where do you find info online?
SPE website & online library
Occasionally the IADC website
RE: Where do you find info online?
RE: Where do you find info online?
We see that trend too, which is why we feel we have to pay to get on these directories, they are the only way to get found on Google anymore.
So far no one uses GlobalSpec, I am surprised...I hope I get more responses here, I really want to hear what a large cross section of engineers think. GlobalSpec claims to be beating Thomas Register as a sourcing directory - I'd be amazed....
Thanks all!
RE: Where do you find info online?
I've tried using GlobalSpec, but it just seems so convoluted. Thomas is much more straight forward.
Regards,
Grant
Aerospace Engineer
RE: Where do you find info online?
They seem to be trying to do alot for the engineering community and I would expect improvements in search capabilities for parts(since they are relatively new). They do provide a lot of other info other than trying to find a part.
RE: Where do you find info online?
The company lists don't seem to help me too much (GlobalSpec, TR, etc.) The categories are too broad, and clicking on 20 of them to find the one product I need is is a lot more difficult than letting Google do the searching.
RE: Where do you find info online?
RE: Where do you find info online?
It seems like TR or GlobalSpec just want to give you to an unorganized list of the paying advertisers that generally might match your search string regardless of what you are looking for, oh well. And it seems like the vendors shown blew their whole marketing budget on getting listed because the websites are uninformative and useless, if they exist at all. I'm goin gto try Metacrawler next time, thanks guys.