# Cross\_fields and boost - Is it feasible?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-fields-and-boost-is-it-feasible/134219>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-fields-and-boost-is-it-feasible/134219 "2018-06-01T12:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![lapilit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ba0ec/32.png) [@lapilit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lapilit)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-fields-and-boost-is-it-feasible/134219/9 "2018-06-04T15:36:40Z")

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> [@Mark\_Harwood](#):
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> "Short string fields" means things like firstname, surname or address where a search for "john smith" would be really bad if you didn't have cross\_fields tweaking the IDF for you to stop "address:smith street" being ranked top.

Still I don't see the problem here:

We're using `cross_fields`, so "address" field won't be biased (IDF score is even out). Now, I just make "description" field to be a priority field over the rest of the fields. Why can't I benefit from `boost` option in this scenario?

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