# Closer is better

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closer-is-better/100071>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 11, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closer-is-better/100071 "2017-09-11T14:10:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aslamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aslamy/32/18254_2.png) [@aslamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aslamy)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closer-is-better/100071/1 "2017-09-11T14:10:02Z")

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Hi !

If I have two documents like:

Doc1: ["title": "A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page"]  
Doc2: ["title" : "A book is a set of sheets of paper and parchment"]

How can I get higher score for the second document when I search for "book" because the word "book" is closer to the beginning of that sentence (title)?

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**Author:** ![Mikhail\_Khludnev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mikhail_khludnev/32/59591_2.png) [@Mikhail\_Khludnev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mikhail_Khludnev)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closer-is-better/100071/2 "2017-09-11T16:08:33Z")

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Try to _should_ [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-span-first-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-span-first-query.html)

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**Author:** ![aslamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aslamy/32/18254_2.png) [@aslamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aslamy)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closer-is-better/100071/3 "2017-09-11T17:39:22Z")

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I don't know if span first query works with my existing query because "Span queries cannot be mixed with non-span queries".

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**Author:** ![aslamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aslamy/32/18254_2.png) [@aslamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aslamy)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closer-is-better/100071/4 "2017-09-12T07:03:26Z")

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I have not got span\_first query work with rescore\_query. Any suggestions ?

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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:** [October 10, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closer-is-better/100071/5 "2017-10-10T07:04:07Z")

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