VIDIZMO Search

1. How Search Works In VIDIZMO

Search is often at the front and center of what we do and with the expansion of digital media in the enterprise, the time employees spend searching is only expected to surge. The rampant use of enterprise video across organizations, for instance, means that a great deal of business-related information will now be stored in the form of the video for employees to extract insights and knowledge from.

Keeping in view the inherent challenges faced by the users in searching for relevant information, VIDIZMO has implemented a powerful search tool that helps users to quickly obtain the desired results from the information spread across the portal. For example, based upon permissions assigned to the user, a search can be performed to bring up results which match keywords defined in entities such as Tags, Author Name, Closed Captions, Category names and those defined as Custom Attributes. When the search is performed from the Channel Homepage or the Channel Library, VIDIZMO will look into these entities to bring up the results. 

Campaign's section and Users & Groups have their own search and will bring up the results based on their respective criteria. These require Administrative permission and are described in Administrator Level Filters below.

VIDIZMO search works on all metadata, including titles, tags, description, long description, category, the author as well as all the content that is part of published videos (in case of rich presentation, there can be closed captions, ppt, documents etc. where all such content is indexed and searchable). Search works globally to get all presentations across all channels within an account or to perform a search within any specific channel.

VIDIZMO's search mechanism is relevance-based, which means that the searched Media, User, or Campaign with the highest weight will appear first. To narrow down the search, users can also filter the media, where the search engine takes the entire media uploaded to the portal into consideration and removes items based on the filters set by the users.

Below is an example search using the term "Town Hall". Only the media which has this term (or part of this term) are listed in the search results:

i. Searched Term: Town Hall

ii. Searched Term in Media Title

iii. Searched Term in Media Description

The media which appears as the first on the list has the term "Hall" in multiple places, which has positioned it as more relevant to others on the basis of the searched term : 

In the media below which was also included in the search results when searching "Hall", note that the searched term does not appear anywhere in Title, Tags, or in the Category name and only appears as part of the word "Hall" in "Halldor" in the description.  Since the search term has low relevancy due to its position as a part of the word, this media is also included in the search results but positioned as the last entry.

To learn more about Closed Captions and how you can search within the video transcript, click here on the section Learn To Work With Transcript Pane In VIDIZMO, in the article How To Add Closed Captions (CC) & Work with Transcripts.