Find.com has announced a content alliance with ThomasB2B.com, LLC that is intended to give searchers access to the business listings of more than 550,000 industrial suppliers from 29 countries. Find.com's online B2B sourcing directory will combine free company listings with ThomasB2B's pay-per-click ad matching technology to deliver targeted content to end-users. The directory is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2005. Initially available in English, the directory will ultimately appear in ten additional languages. Find.com is a partnership of FIND/SVP Inc., a business advisory, research and consulting firm; Empire Media, a media and marketing company; and TripleHop Technologies, a provider of enterprise software solutions. Find.com's premium content is made available on a fee per-document basis. ThomasB2B.com, is an online advertising network that links professional buyers with qualified business suppliers. Geared toward the business-to-business market, the network features bid-for-position and pay-per-click pricing along with streamlined search capabilities based on business categories.
(www.find.com; www.thomasb2b.com)