# Boost query in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-query-in-elasticsearch/17366>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 6, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-query-in-elasticsearch/17366 "2014-05-06T11:57:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexandre\_Pinsard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexandre_pinsard/32/1592_2.png) [@Alexandre\_Pinsard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandre_Pinsard)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-query-in-elasticsearch/17366/1 "2014-05-06T11:57:17Z")

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Hello everybody,  
i would like to use boost in the case :

I have a personal index that contains the following properties:

- sname
- fname
- login

When I do research on fname= 'toto' and sname = 't' I would like my results  
are sorted by relevance. For example :

- Toto tata
- Toto tutu
- Toto tttttt
- Totoaaaa Tutfut
- etc...

But I do not know how to deal with boost. Can you help me please ?

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**Author:** ![Hannes\_Korte](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hannes_korte/32/909_2.png) [@Hannes\_Korte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hannes_Korte)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-query-in-elasticsearch/17366/2 "2014-05-06T12:19:40Z")

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Hi Alexandre,

did you have a look at the cross\_fields type of the multi match query?

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Using an edge\_ngram analyzer this might already solve your problem even  
without the need for fine-tuning a boost value.

Best regards,  
Hannes

On 06.05.2014 13:57, Alexandre Pinsard wrote:

> Hello everybody,  
> i would like to use boost in the case :
> 
> I have a personal index that contains the following properties:
> 
> ```
> - sname
> - fname
> - login
> 
> ```
> 
> When I do research on fname= 'toto' and sname = 't' I would like my results  
> are sorted by relevance. For example :
> 
> ```
> - Toto tata
> - Toto tutu
> - Toto tttttt
> - Totoaaaa Tutfut
> - etc...
> 
> ```
> 
> But I do not know how to deal with boost. Can you help me please ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boost-query-in-elasticsearch/17366/3 "2017-07-06T01:31:22Z")

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