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    January 04, 2008

    SortFix - Improve your Search

    SortFix - Improve your Search. This is a search engine that is bolted onto the front of Google, Yahoo and DMOZ, and you can choose which of them you search. The selling point of this engine is that when you have run a search you can click and drag keywords to include or exclude in the search to further refine it. This in and of itself isn't at all remarkable, and indeed I'm not convinced that SortFix chooses the best words/terms to include or exclude, but the click and drag approach makes it very easy.
    As you can see from the screenshot it's very straightforward and easy to use and I think they would be best to position themselves in a market for children; certainly the video that they have on their home page would appeal rather more to them than adults. If you want something really simple and straightforward, don't want to worry about the basic syntax and need help deciding what you're looking for, this might be worth trying.

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