What are Combin’s sorting and filtering options for search results?

Posts can be sorted by the following criteria:

  • Number of likes

  • Number of comments

  • Followers count

  • Followings count

  • Overall posts count (in the author’s profile)

  • Publication date

  • Following/Followers ratio

  • Virality (the total amount of likes and comments)

  • Engagement rate

Posts that fall under the following categories can be hidden from the results:

  • Already liked posts

  • Already commented posts

  • Posts published by Instagram accounts you follow

  • Posts published by your Instagram followers

  • Posts published by previously unfollowed accounts

  • Posts published by irrelevant users

  • Posts published by relevant users

  • Your own posts

  • Photo posts

  • Video posts

  • Previously shown search results

Accounts can be sorted by the following criteria:

  • Followers count

  • Followings count

  • Posts count

  • Following/Followers ratio

  • Engagement rate

Accounts that fall under the following categories can be hidden from the results:

  • Already liked accounts

  • Already commented accounts

  • Accounts your follow

  • Accounts that follow you

  • Accounts you unfollowed

  • Accounts of irrelevant users

  • Accounts of relevant users

  • Accounts with private profiles

  • Accounts with public profiles

  • Previously shown search results

Users can set the preferred range of likes and comments number, the found posts should fit within to be displayed in the results. The amount of following and followers of the post’s author or an account can also be set through Advanced Filters and Analysis.

Advanced filtration and machine learning-enhanced user analysis provide the following additional options for both Posts and Users searches:

  • Hiding interaction inefficient accounts (“Irrelevant users”)

  • Hiding interaction efficient accounts (“Relevant users”)

  • Filtration by gender

  • Filtration by language

  • Filtration by last activity (“User had to be active last week”)

  • Filtration by engagement rate