# Avoiding duplicates in autocomplete searches
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-duplicates-in-autocomplete-searches/12876
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 22, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-duplicates-in-autocomplete-searches/12876 "2013-07-22T06:35:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@dantuff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dantuff)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-duplicates-in-autocomplete-searches/12876/1 "2013-07-22T06:35:20Z")
I'm using ngrams on an '.autocomplete' field but my auto complete search is
bringing back duplicates. I can remove the duplicates after the search but
is there a way to execute a search so that it does not return the
duplicates?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2013, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-duplicates-in-autocomplete-searches/12876/2 "2013-07-22T07:22:05Z")
You can use TermsFacet but only on small number of values (memory concern).
Don't use it on ngrams!
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Le 22 juil. 2013 à 08:35, dan [dan.tuffery@gmail.com](mailto:dan.tuffery@gmail.com) a écrit :
> I'm using ngrams on an '.autocomplete' field but my auto complete search is bringing back duplicates. I can remove the duplicates after the search but is there a way to execute a search so that it does not return the duplicates?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avoiding-duplicates-in-autocomplete-searches/12876/3 "2017-07-06T02:25:18Z")