It's easy for your site to gather and insert information directly from its users, but searching - well, that's another matter all together. But, DevShed is looking to try to help.

In Sort This Sort That they introduce you to some algorithms and concepts that can help you generate a speedier, less memory intensive search for your data.

Note: For describing these algorithms I will use pseudo-language. In this way, concepts of these algorithms will be understandable to anyone regardless of the programming language.

So, they continue on seeking to explain several concepts, including: inserting methods, selection methods, and sorting with a binary tree. For each example, they give a "flow illustration" so you can get an idea of how the search really works. Keep an eye out for the next article in this series which will include more detailed information such as inner-sorting and bucket-sorts...