# Content Search for OTT and IPTV Platforms | Vodlix **Source:** https://vodlix.com/features/content-search **Summary:** Let viewers find any title in seconds. Vodlix content search indexes titles, synopses, genres and tags across your whole catalogue, on web, mobile and TV apps. **Publisher:** Vodlix --- Quickly find content with powerful search engine. Search by title, tags, or keywords. - **Feature Plan:** 2 - core-platform - front-end ## Find Anything in Your Catalogue, Instantly A viewer who cannot find a title does not go looking for it. They close the app. Vodlix search reads every title, synopsis, genre and tag in your library, then puts the right result in front of your audience on web, mobile and TV. ### Search Is Where Most Watch Sessions Really Begin Browsing works beautifully for the first hundred titles. After that the rails stop scaling, and your audience starts arriving with a rough idea already in mind. A name they half remember. An actor. A mood. At that point the most useful thing a platform can do is get out of the way. Vodlix indexes your whole catalogue, so a few characters are enough to surface the right title and get someone watching instead of scrolling. ### Your Metadata Is Doing the Searching Search quality is really metadata quality. Every field your team fills in joins the index the moment you publish, with no separate step to remember. Title, synopsis, genre, cast, tags, maturity rating: all of it feeds the same place. That is why the effort compounds. The fields that sharpen your search results are the same ones driving your rails, your filters and your category pages, so keeping your [metadata in good order](/features/metadata-management) quietly improves every part of the storefront at once. #### Matches beyond the title A search for a theme brings back titles that never contain the word, because the index reads synopses, genres and tags rather than only the name on the poster. #### Films and series, separated Mixed results split into Movies and TV Shows with a single tap, which matters most on catalogues that carry both side by side. #### Reachable from every screen The search field sits in the header right across the storefront, so a viewer can start a fresh query without first going back to the home page. ### Built for the Way People Actually Type Real queries are messy. Viewers half remember a title, reach for a character's name instead of the show's, or fall back on a genre when nothing specific comes to mind. Vodlix copes with partial words and brings back the whole cluster of related titles rather than demanding an exact string. Search a theme and you get the films and series that share it, not an empty page. When a query genuinely has no match, viewers land back among your genre rails rather than at a dead end. On a television that matters even more. The same search runs from the remote, with an onscreen keyboard and genre shortcuts down the side, so nobody has to peck out a full title just to find one. - mx-auto ### Search That Speaks Your Viewers' Language If you run a [multilingual platform](/features/multilingual), search follows whichever interface language your viewer has chosen and matches against the localized titles and descriptions you published for it. Someone browsing in French searches in French, against your French metadata, rather than against an English fallback they cannot read. The same index answers your [mobile apps](/features/mobile-apps) and [TV apps](/features/tv-apps), so a query behaves the same way on a phone as it does on a remote in the living room. - mx-auto **Q: What can viewers actually search for?** Titles, synopses, genres and the tags you attach to a video or series. Because the index covers far more than the title field, a viewer searching for a theme or a subject will still find relevant titles even when the word never appears in the name. **Q: Can viewers narrow results to films or series?** Yes. Every result set carries Movies and TV Shows filters, so a mixed catalogue can be split down to one content type without running the search again. **Q: Does search work the same way in the mobile and TV apps?** It does. The web storefront, the iOS and Android apps and the TV apps all query the same index, so a viewer gets the same results and the same filters whichever device they pick up. **Q: How soon does a newly added title show up in search?** As soon as it is published. Adding a video or series through the CMS makes its metadata searchable straight away, with no separate indexing job to run or schedule. **Q: Is search available in more than one language?** Yes. On a multilingual platform, search follows the language your viewer has selected and matches against the localized titles and descriptions you have published for that language. **Q: What can I do to improve search results on my platform?** Fill in your metadata properly. Complete synopses, accurate genres and useful tags are what the index reads, so a catalogue that has been described carefully is far easier to search than one where only the titles were filled in. **Q: What do viewers see when a search returns nothing?** They are returned to your browsable catalogue rather than a dead end, so an unsuccessful query becomes a chance to discover something from your genre rails instead of a reason to leave.