GlobalSpec is a technology services company which provides a search engine of engineering and industrial products, indexing over 180 million parts divided into 2,300,000 product families, from over 24,000 manufacturer and distributor catalogs.

[2] GlobalSpec is a domain-specific (or "vertical search") tool, in that its focused domain allows for optimized results.

[3] The website has over 8 million registered members, and as of 2009, membership was growing at a rate of 20,000 per week.

GlobalSpec has partnerships with several well-known companies, including: SolidWorks which is a product of Dassault Systèmes has embedded access to GlobalSpec's search engine inside its computer-aided design software.

Warburg Pincus sold GlobalSpec to IHS in 2012 for $135 million.