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Datasheets.com - new parts search engine

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This site just keeps linking datasheet links to ads for me.

I use Octopart. They're an awesome startup and have a great collection of datasheets already.

Octopart seems like a useful improvement if I'm asking "what part should I get" rather than "what do I do with this part."

They seem to be disabling the back button, on purpose or by accident, which is very irritating.

Hi Ajju, Many thanks for your feedback. Can you please let us know the page (or steps) where this is happening for you? This is probably by accident and we will try our utmost best to fix it.

Best Regards, The Datasheets.com Team

It's happening on the home page, when I click through from the link posted here, if I try to click back to get back to the discussion, it doesn't work. Do you have a redirect script on the home page that could be causing it by accident?

Thanks for the feedback Ajju. We'll have this fixed shortly.

a clone of the old IC Master site? when i want a datasheet i get it from alldatasheet.com or datasheetarchive.com - no login and more info. Better still directly from the manufacturer.

Anyone tried this out yet?

I was able to stump it multiple times without trying very hard.

My usual route is:

1. Search Digikey 2. Search Google

Compared to Digikey, the results aren't as informative, the likelihood of a valid match is apparently significantly lower, and it's ad-supported.

Compared to Google, the likelihood of a valid match is much, much lower.

I have a hard time seeing a need for this site.

Thanks Glimcat,

We understand and do agree with the usual route users use. One of the many compelling propositions to use datasheets.com is to search on parametric data and compare parts. For example, if your current part is obsolete and not available, as a design engineer you can search for various parameters and find a replacement part.

Also, our engineering team normalizes part data which makes it easy to compare various parts with similar attributes.

Best Regards, The Datasheets.com Team

Hi, Product Manager for Datasheets.com from SiliconExpert here. Good to hear your perspective.

Datasheets.com has direct relationships with hundreds of electronic manufacturers and dozens of distributors. As such, the likelihood of finding a part number on datasheets.com is greater than any single distributor/manufacturer website by itself. I would encourage you to try a search. Let us know how it goes.

Also, Google searches for part numbers can at times provide non-electronic industry related results. Simple example: search for "DMV" on Google and you will most likely receive results for the Department of Motor Vehicles. Search for "DMV" on datasheets.com and you'll see results for Diode families from electronic manufacturers.

The difference really is between horizontal vs vertical search engines.

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