Thursday, October 21, 2010

A new tool for Internet Searching: SortFix

Here's a great new tool for searching...SortFixwww.sortfix.com  Watch the following clip for a little demo of how it works.  This could be particularly effective with our middle school students, but useful for all of us who often get search results we don't want. 

Youtube - SortFix Search Engine Animation

Sort Fix graphically facilitates search and demonstrates thinking about search refinement.  A behind-the- scenes algorithm scans results to identify and present significant keywords.  Searchers can grab (or remove) these words from their search baskets to refine their searches and create better queries.  A dictionary basket is available to compensate for new vocabulary.

I'm definately adding this to my list of search engines!  Check it out!

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