# Elastic Search - Search Query More weightage to exact matches
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-search-query-more-weightage-to-exact-matches/16831
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 5, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-search-query-more-weightage-to-exact-matches/16831 "2014-04-05T20:29:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Pratik\_Poddar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pratik_Poddar)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-search-query-more-weightage-to-exact-matches/16831/1 "2014-04-05T20:29:13Z")
I have implemented a news search engine on elastic search. I have indexed
the articles and run the search query as following. When I search for "A B
C", I want the search engine to give more weightage to exact matches of "A
B C" \> "A B" / "B C" \> "A" / "B" / "C". Its not happening. How can I change
the search query to reflect this?
```
es.indices.create(
index="article-index",
body={
'settings': {
'analysis': {
'analyzer': {
'my_ngram_analyzer' : {
'tokenizer' : 'my_ngram_tokenizer'
}
},
'tokenizer' : {
'my_ngram_tokenizer' : {
'type' : 'nGram',
'min_gram' : '1',
'max_gram' : '50'
}
}
}
}
},
# ignore already existing index
ignore=400
)
```
res = es.search(index="article-index", fields="url", body={"query": {"query\_string": {"query": keywordstr}})
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-search-query-more-weightage-to-exact-matches/16831/2 "2017-07-06T01:37:57Z")