Search inside the TV universe.

Monitor TV a better way, with TV search software.

In the past, monitoring TV meant eyeballing what came across the screen with a remote control in hand and a hot finger on the fast-forward button. Today, SnapStream makes TV monitoring a far less daunting task. Instead of scanning, TV search acts as your virtual finger, tracking the pulse of traditional television in real time. From SnapStream's Web interface, type keywords into the search box, just like using an Internet search engine. In the blink of an eye, a dynamic list of TV search results appears, pulled from your entire SnapStream library. The rich content stored in TV is now more accessible than ever before.

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Find it fast. Really fast.

Clock it. From the second you click "search," SnapStream's TV search engine ignites with a roar, accelerating through its vast store of closed captioning data, program titles and descriptions; red flagging every instance of the keyword you requested. It all happens in milliseconds under the hood, as thousands of TV search results pop up in a heartbeat. Even in-progress TV recordings are included as SnapStream indexes the closed captioning stream in real time. At these top-notch speeds, there's nothing standing in between you and the information you're looking for on TV.

Cut the clutter with Boolean logic.

Let's narrow it down. When you're searching on a very popular or broad topic, SnapStream's integrated Boolean logic is a big help. For instance, a comprehensive search on "Obama" is going to yield crazy, huge results on American television. But thanks to our dandy search operators and filters, there's no need to aimlessly search for a needle in a haystack. To refine your search results down to the nitty-gritty, you can do things like: exclude results with a minus sign; search for an exact phrase by wrapping it in quotes; even filter by date, time, category and channel. We even have tricks for those really hard-to-find results: you can do a "wildcard" search to sort by prefix and a "fuzzy" search to bring up alternate spellings.

Friendly TV search results place
you right at the point of mention.

SnapStream's TV search results are designed to feel familiar, like Web search results, so you intuitively know how to read them and use them. You can peruse the closed captioning excerpt to see which segment looks interesting and choose one to watch. SnapStream's Web player will then begin to play automatically, but not from the beginning of the program. It's in sync with the keyword query to know the exact timestamp of where your mention occurred. Like a bookmark, it will jump to the point straightaway. This is where you jump up and down with excitement because you have found the nugget of information you wanted, so you'll want to make a clip. You can also view or download the full transcript from the search result.

Everything is searchable.

What you record is what you can search: your entire library, spanning however many clustered SnapStreams you own, plus TV clips and ShowSqueezed files. To make manual recordings searchable, you can easily edit the associated title and description fields, which get rolled into TV search. Third-party storage can be integrated into search as well, if it is licensed by SnapStream. What good is an extensive TV archive, if you can't navigate it efficiently?

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