For those searching using an online industrial guide, you may get superior information as an alternate to Bing or Google searches. Even though Bing and Google provide large numbers of suppliers, large numbers, these could just be brokers, despite size or locale.
Many professional purchasing agents have switched to some of the best engineered online reference search sites. As the web started to grow, there were no high quality search engines. Early search was problematic at best, with time came better and better indexing. With few other options, Yahoo, Bing and Google control the search engine space, and the specific search providers like ThomasNet.
With Bing and Google delivering a broad range of search results, and thus the industry based providers have gained ground.
The net is full of paid advertisers in all markets, and many times these companies are low quality importers or jobbers. The commercial types of search providers do investigate the advertisers prior to adding them to the search results, quality versus quantity may be the best results.
This is just one of the differences between Google and MacRae’s Blue Book, search Google for Natural UHMW rod and you get 359,000 results (do you really need that many results) and MacRae’s delivers 101 producers and suppliers.
Many web portals now offer excellent industrial online reference guides has increased. Major commercial sites such as IQS Directories, Merchant Circle and ThomasNet (formerly Thomas Regional Guide), along with several online Yellow Pages and small boutique search sites.
Try one of these special search sites to see if you find better results, compare one of these specialty provider to your normal results from Google. If you have not used ThomasNet for a search, click here for an example of a Polycarbonate Sheet search.
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