"sift through information" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are looking for specific information or data, and you need to go through a lot of different resources and documents to find it. For example, "We will need to sift through a lot of information to find the best solution."
Some ideas include touch-screen tools that would let Wikipedia editors sift through information and share content from their phones.
He says his assignment is to "help people both within and outside the system sift through information to understand what's really going on".
Stone was shrewd enough to retain the obsessive intercutting of the novel, which shifted back and forth from the gang's perspective to that of the subway police, who methodically sift through information to track the kidnappers down.
In summary, the newcomer's fact-finding mission is difficult and hazardous, and he or she will be required to sift through information that is often contradictory, tough to evaluate, and not always obvious.
The project sought ways to sift through information to find what might be most relevant to a given topic, and to learn from a user's response to the information offered.
McClellan cited Vioxx, asserting that safety problems with the drug could have been detected in months rather than years if the FDA had been able to sift through information in health-care databases.
Sifting through information on the public database, Rae-Venter wableble to track down a relative from Mosteller's extended family.
In response to my recent column on patients trusting doctors too much, several readers wrote in about the difficulty of finding or sifting through information on doctors and diseases.
During market hours, Mr. Cohen can be found at the center of his football field-size trading floor in Stamford, Conn., sitting among his traders, sifting through information, and buying and selling stocks.
Despite the onslaught, SAC was open for business on Thursday with Mr. Cohen at the center of the firm's cavernous trading floor in Stamford, Conn., sifting through information, buying and selling stocks, and trying to make money for his investors.
Sifting through information displayed in film, maps, tweets and models is a big ask of the viewer, but it's impossible not to be gripped by the unfolding narrative that's all the more shocking because it's real.
