"filtering search" is a correct and usable phrase.
You can use it when you are referring to a software program or tool that permits users to narrow their search results by specific criteria, such as date or location. For example, "We used a filtering search to find the website we needed in the search engine results."
Filtering search results is an imperfect science, and depending on what you are searching for, you may block Web sites with information about reproductive health or political issues.
Sometimes information like metadata on poll topics is necessary for effective searching, and sometimes this information is useful for filtering search results.
Sina Weibo, the nation's most popular microblogging site, has experimented with "semi-censorship,"as one blog termed it, filtering search results for once-unsearchable terms.
During the debate over Internet censorship that has raged since Google stopped filtering search results in China, the unsettling example of Xinjiang — which with a population of 20 million represents one of the largest examples of Internet suppression the world has ever seen — has rarely been mentioned.
Kester was brought on in 1999 to hone the categories, supplement the database and enhance the filtering search methods.
Yesterday Google announced that it was rethinking its policy of filtering search results in China, prompted in part over concerns involving human rights activists.
For parents, the Web also has several heavily filtered search engines designed just for children.
You can filter search results on Facebook by people, groups, pages, events and even posts.
The app is essentially just a mobile version of the filtered search function the London Sperm Bank offers on its website.
This is a problem LinkedIn could solve, however, if it allowed us to categorize our connections and use those categories to filter search results.
You can also filter search further using your Twitter Lists.
