In order to

Use the syntax

Example

Search for multiple terms occurring together, or either separately.

OR

Searching for:

SENATE OR CONGRESS 

will find the word "Senate" or "Congress,"

Exclude results containing certain terms

NOT or -(minus sign)

Searching for

will find the words "Apple" and "iPod" only where they appear without the word "iPhone."

Search for an exact sequence of words

" " (quotation marks) 

Searching for

will find only results in which the phrase "Paris Hilton" appears exactly as in the quotation marks, and not mentions of "Paris" or "Hilton" alone, or results such as "the Hilton in Paris"

Group words together in a search

( ) (Parentheses)

Searching for

will find "Houston" together with "Rockets," or "Houston" together with "Astros,".

In order to

Use the syntax

Example

Filter by date or date range

DATE:

Dates must be entered as a month/day or as month/day/year.

Terms can be entered as date or as a time period. Allowed time period terms are:

TODAY, YESTERDAY, THISWEEK, LASTWEEK, THISMONTH, LASTMONTH, THISYEAR, LASTYEAR

AFTER and BEFORE can be used to find results made before or after a date or time.

Date and time must be separated with a space.

BEFORECLIP and AFTERCLIP will return clips that were created before or after the specified date.

Searching for

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DATE:01/13/08

will return mentions of "presidential" and "election" together in recordings made on January 13, 2008.

Searching for

DATE:11/12

will return results from November 12.

Searching for

DATE:THISWEEK

will return results from the week that began at midnight on the most recent Sunday.

Searching for

DATE:LASTWEEK

will return results from the week that ended at midnight on the most recent Sunday.

Searching for

DATE:THISMONTH 

will return results from the current calendar month.

Searching for

DATE:LASTMONTH

will return results from the previous calendar month.

Searching for

DATE:THISYEAR

will return results from the current calendar year.

Searching for

DATE:LASTYEAR

will return results from the previous calendar year.

Searching for

AFTER:01/13/08 13:30

will return results from after January 13, 2008 at 1:30 PM.

Searching for

AFTER:01/13/08 1:30

will return results from after January 13, 2008 at 1:30 AM.

Searching for

AFTERCLIP: 01/31/13

will return clips that were created after January 31, 2013, regardless of the date on which the original program was created.

Filter by channel number, callsign, or network

NETWORK:

Will restrict the search to recordings made on a particular network.

CALLSIGN:

Will restrict the search to recordings made on a channel with a particular callsign.

CHANNEL:

Can be used to restrict the search to a particular network, callsign, or channel number.

Searching for

Searching for

Searching for

will return results from Sportsnet.

Searching for

will return results from WABC.

Searching for

will return results from channel 39.

Search in program genre/category, title, or description

TITLE:

Returns only results from programs with this title.

CATEGORY:

Will restrict searches to programs listed in a particular category in the SnapStream Program Guide.

DESCRIPTION:

Search only within program descriptions, including general information about the program, names of actors, people appearing on the program, etc.

ACTOR:

Search in program descriptions for the name of an actor

CREDIT:

Search in the credits section of program descriptions. Credits include writers, directors, producers, etc.

Searching for

could be used to find mentions of the phrase "satellite radio" during the program CNN Newsroom

Searching for

will return mentions of Oprah Winfrey from shows that are categorized as news, including live news broadcasts, interviews, newsmagazines, etc.

Searching for

could be used to find mentions of health and care during programs that are described as debates.

Searching for

could be used to find results from shows or movies in which Bruce Willis appears as an actor.

Filter by file type

IS:

Will restrict searches to a particular type of file.

The following can be used as search terms with this operator:

AD (returns only results that have been marked as ads using the SmartChapters feature)

ARCHIVED

CLIP

GENERIC (program guide search only)

HD

MOVIE

ORIGINAL

SHOWSQUEEZE

SPORTS (program guide search only)

To exclude a type of file, use NOT or -IS:

Searching for

will only return results that have been transcoded to WMV or H.264 using SnapStream's Showsqueeze utility.

Searching for

will exclude clips made using SnapStream from the search.

In order to

Use the syntax

Example

Search tags that have been entered by users

TAG:

Searching for

TAG:"jimmy fallon"

Will return results that include the tag "jimmy fallon"

Search by prefix ("wildcard" search)

* (asterisk)

An asterisk represents any number of unknown characters. This is known as a "wildcard" search.

A wildcard cannot be used as the first character of a search term.

Searching for

will return results for "English," "England," etc.

Searching for

will return no results.

Search for similar sounding words (useful for finding words with alternate spellings, or words that are frequently misspelled)

~ (tilde)

A tilde searches for words that are similar, but not identical, to the search term. This is known as "fuzzy" search.

This operator can be fine-tuned with a number between 0 and 1 to find results that are less or more similar to the term. Numbers closer to 1 will find more similar results. When no number is entered, the term will be searched with a value of 0.5.

Searching for

can be used to find the name "John" together with alternate spellings like "Jon."

Searching for

will find the word "environment" along with misspellings like "envrioment" or "environemnt"

Searching for

will find results closer to the actual term than ENVIRONMENT~0.4.

Find keywords that occur within a specified proximity of each other

" "~(number of words)

Entering a phrase enclosed within quotation marks and followed by a tilde (~) and a number will search for the words in the phrase within that distance (in words) of each other. By default, when two or more search terms are entered, the search engine will search for them as far apart as possible (about 20 seconds).  

Searching for

will find the words "Senator" and "Clinton" within 10 words of each other.

Restrict results to closed captioning data

TEXT:

Will search only within closed-captioning data, not program title or description. This can be useful when searching for mentions of search terms that are likely to appear in titles or descriptions, such as mentions of actors, TV personalities or TV shows.

Searching for

will return mentions of the phrase "The Daily Show" in closed-captioning data, but not programs titled The Daily Show