The document summarizes the Search and Hyperlinking task at the 2014 MediaEval benchmarking initiative. It provides an overview of the task and datasets used from 2012-2014. It also reports the results of various submissions on the search and hyperlinking sub-tasks based on evaluation metrics like MAP, P@5/10 and discusses lessons learned like the effect of prosodic features and metadata on performance. Finally, it acknowledges the contributions of the BBC and others in preparing the datasets and hosting user trials.