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Manufacturers’ News, Inc. (MNI) announced today that it has acquired IndustryNet and will be merging it with its existing industrial search engine, mniguide.com, to create one of the nation’s most comprehensive guides for locating manufacturers and suppliers.
MNI, established 1912, compiles information about U.S. manufacturing establishments and other industrial businesses, and its search engine includes nearly 600,000 companies. MNI reports that mniguide.com has been receiving well over 20,000 unique searches every day.
IndustryNet is one of a growing number of vertical search engines that are gaining popularity. With an estimated one million new web pages coming online each day, industrial buyers are finding it increasingly difficult to sift through traditional search engine results to locate qualified vendors and suppliers. Vertical search engines, like IndustryNet, offer many unique advantages that help buyers save time and money.
Unlike major search engines, which index all websites on the Internet, IndustryNet lists only industrial companies. Each company is pre-qualified and verified manually by MNI’s in-house editorial research staff to ensure relevancy and accuracy. Companies are organized within one or more of IndustryNet’s 10,000 product/service categories so that buyers can locate only those vendors who have the capabilities to fit their unique needs. The result is that users of IndustryNet experience more relevant, higher quality search results, in less time than using a traditional search engine. The request for quote feature allows buyers to easily seek competitive bids from multiple suppliers.
