A method for searching and ranking personalized videos includes receiving a user request via a communication chat between a user and another user. The user request includes a phrase. The method performs, based on the phrase, a search in a first pool of pre-rendered videos to determine a first subset of relevant videos ranked according to first rankings. The pre-rendered videos include pre-rendered text messages. The method performs a search in a second pool of customized videos to determine a second subset of relevant videos ranked according to second rankings. The customized videos include text messages modified by the user. The method generates a set of videos. The set of videos includes a first number of pre-rendered videos from the first subset of relevant videos and a second number of customized videos from the second subset of relevant videos. The method presents the set of videos via the communication chat.