# Elastic Search text similarity search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-text-similarity-search/305643
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 25, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-text-similarity-search/305643 "2022-05-25T22:20:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@gkumargaur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gkumargaur)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-text-similarity-search/305643/1 "2022-05-25T22:20:33Z")
what is the best way to search San Jose and SanJose in Elasticsearch. Data is stored as text and correct value in ES is San Jose.
Sample query not working:
```auto
{
"match" : {
"cssot_city" : {
"query" : "SanJose",
"operator" : "OR",
"fuzziness" : "AUTO",
"prefix_length" : 0,
"max_expansions" : 50,
"fuzzy_transpositions" : true,
"lenient" : true,
"zero_terms_query": "all",
"auto_generate_synonyms_phrase_query" : true,
"boost" : 1.0
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-text-similarity-search/305643/2 "2022-05-25T22:59:24Z")
Hi @gkumargaur !
I found two options:
1 - In this [post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apply-fuzzy-search-and-searching-with-without-spaces/242964/3) the user created an analyzer to index the words without the white space.
2 - You can use a suggester to suggest the closest term to the user, it would be a "did you mean".
Ex:
```auto
PUT idx_did_you_mean
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"shingle_filter": {
"max_shingle_size": "3",
"min_shingle_size": "2",
"type": "shingle"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"shingle_analyzer": {
"filter": [
"lowercase",
"shingle_filter"
],
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard"
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"suggest": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "shingle_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}
}
POST idx_did_you_mean/_doc
{
"title":"San Jose"
}
GET idx_did_you_mean/_search
{
"suggest": {
"text": "sanjose city",
"did_you_mean": {
"phrase": {
"field": "title.suggest",
"size": 5
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-text-similarity-search/305643/3 "2022-06-22T23:00:12Z")
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