Indexed Search Examples
The Media Index search engine uses language analysis and, if specified with the appropriate operator, fuzzy matching to help find content even if the actual text is slightly different. This allows you to find words with incorrect spelling and word variations.
Indexed search requires Media Index to be installed and configured in your MediaCentral Platform environment.
The search syntax does not automatically compensate for spelling mistakes but instead expects exact matches. You can use different operators to improve your search requests, and you can combine the operators to create powerful search expressions. For a description of the operators available for the search syntax, see
Conducting a Search.
Operator | Search expression | Matches | Does not match |
Fuzzy (~) | quick~ | quic, quakc, quick, quite | uid, kik |
By default the fuzzy operator allows for two different characters in a word, but you can specify more. | quick~3 | kwic, black | quantum |
Wildcard (* and ?) | qui* | quit, quick, quiz | quack, kick |
| qui? | quit, quiz | quick |
| ?ick | tick, sick | quick |
Proximity (“[term]”~[numeral]) | “quick fox”~1 | “quick brown fox” | “quick and clever fox” |
Finds all cases where there words are inside the given distance from each other. The number parameter is the number of words separating the search terms. | “quick fox”~2 | “qucik brown fox”, “quick and clever fox” | “quick and slightly bluish fox” |
Boolean prefixes (+ and -) | +quick -blue +fox | “quick brown fox”, “fox is quick” | “quick blue fox” |