After performing a search you will be taken to this page, which will show all of the assets that met your search criteria.
Search ordering
The default search ordering for matching metadata results is 'keyword density'.
Keyword density refers to the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears in an asset's metadata compared to the total number of words in all the metadata related to that asset.
For example, if an asset has 100 unique bits of metadata (titles, descriptions, keywords) and the search term someone entered appears three times in that metadata, the keyword density would be 3%. Whilst if another asset only has 50 bits of metadata, but the search term appears twice, then this would score 4% and would appear higher in the search results.
For example, if an asset has 100 unique bits of metadata (titles, descriptions, keywords) and the search term someone entered appears three times in that metadata, the keyword density would be 3%. Whilst if another asset only has 50 bits of metadata, but the search term appears twice, then this would score 4% and would appear higher in the search results.
Search results
Often searches can return a large number of results, so it is likely that there will be multiple pages of results. The number of results shown on each page can be controlled in the 'Assets per page' dropdown in the upper right corner, as with the Browse pages. You can also sort the search results in a number of different orders depending on what is most suitable.
By default search results show a maximum of 1000 results. This is generally more than adequate, and it often means you should add some additional criteria in order to narrow your search results.
Metadata summary
In the list of results you will see summary information about each of the assets underneath the asset previews themselves, for example the ID number, orientation, and size. This is something admin users can configure, to show the most relevant sub-set of metadata on these panels. You can then see the full details of an asset by clicking on the thumbnail.
AI Search Results
For our Professional and Enterprise Customers, they will now see an "AI results" option after running a search. This finds matching image assets based on the search term, but does not rely on metadata, it matches based on the visual content of the images.
Natural language support
As it is not metadata dependent, you can enter natural language search phrases (or even use different language inputs), to find matching assets.
This is great as if you do not see the thing you are looking for in the initial metadata matching results, you can see if AI can uncover what need.
Why are AI Results Capped at 120 max?
AI results convert your search input into meaning, and then brings back the assets that are the closest match to this from all the assets you have in your DAM. We cap these results for performance, but also because the further down the list of matches you get, there will be things that, although they are the closet match in your DAM - do not seem related to the search input at all.
What next?
From this page there are a number of different ways of selecting your assets, and a range of different actions you can perform.
Administrators can change the text displayed beneath each thumbnail in the Display Attributes section.
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