# Confused about search/count queries

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/confused-about-search-count-queries/11417>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 2, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/confused-about-search-count-queries/11417 "2013-04-02T17:39:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tiglath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Tiglath](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tiglath)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/confused-about-search-count-queries/11417/1 "2013-04-02T17:39:52Z")

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I am taking ES training in NY later this month, but I sort of need to know this before then.

I have index 'asset', of type 'ip'. Running ES 0.19.10

The query:

curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/asset/ip/\_search](http://localhost:9200/asset/ip/_search)' -d '{"query":{"query\_string":{"query":"continent:EU"}}}'

works fine but if instead of \_search I use \_count, it gives me an exception.

"QueryParsingException[[asset] No query registered for [query]]"

If I change the request body, however, to:

```
 '{"query_string":{"query":"continent:EU"}}'

```

\_count works.

What am I missing?

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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, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/confused-about-search-count-queries/11417/2 "2017-07-06T02:43:14Z")

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