Refine your online search terms with SortFix

by Brad Linder Dec 6th 2007

Sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for online. You go to Google, type in your search terms, and a few million results pop up. How are you ever going to find what you're looking for that way? Sure, if your search terms accurately described what you were looking for, the top results should be relevant. But sometimes it's hard to find the right search terms.

That's where SortFix comes in. You can use this site to search Google, Yahoo! or DMOZ. After you enter your search words, SortFix will show your results on the lower half of the screen. On the top you'll see a list of associated words. You can drag words that are relevant to the "Add to Search" box and the words that you want to ignore to the "Remove" box. Click Search again and you should get more accurate results, plus some new terms that you can add or remove.

Overall, you probably spend a little longer looking things up using SortFix than you would if you just went to Google. But in the end you might get more relevant results. Check out a cute little demo video showing how to search for homemade ice cream recipes after the jump.

[via Go2Web2]

Tags: search-engine, search-terms, SortFix

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

lili gold said 10:38AM on 12-07-2007

excellent approach to search

it takes a couple of seconds to get use to it
but after that it great

I'll be using this from now on

thanks for showing us things like that

lili gold said 10:40AM on 12-07-2007

It takes a couple of seconds to get used to it

But after that it's fun and helpful

thank you for showing that

Peter Cumminsky said 12:15PM on 12-07-2007

Unless SortFix adds search-plugins (using OpenSearch) for the major (FireFox 2 & IE7) Browsers I, for one, won't be using it. It needs to integrate in the Browser's search box if it's going to be used as an alternative search engine/provider.

snophkin said 5:55PM on 1-06-2008

You are absulotly right, except for one thing, they do have opensearch plugin, check their ToolBar link in the upper left side of sortfix homepage.

snowball said 7:04PM on 1-06-2008

hey they added a tool bar

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