# Elasticsearch e-commerce: specify first docs (products) for specific keywords

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 29, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336 "2016-06-29T21:50:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![midget2000x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@midget2000x](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/midget2000x)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336/1 "2016-06-29T21:50:14Z")

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What is the best way to weight or boost specific documents (in this case my documents are products) so that they appear first for specific keyword searches?

In other words:

if  
search term is "widget doodad"  
then always show these items first:  
"widget doodad #43"  
"special widget doodad"  
"our private-labeled widget doodad"

I have created a pretty good query for all-around use, but client wants to be able to "force" specific products to show first for a set of his top entered search terms.

I know this is something that relevancy experts bristle at, but hey, this is business! 😉

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**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336/2 "2016-06-29T22:22:28Z")

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Have a look at my conditional boost plugin, maybe you can grasp some ideas

> **[jprante/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost)**
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> elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost - Boost documents in Elasticsearch when they match dynamic conditions

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**Author:** ![midget2000x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@midget2000x](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/midget2000x)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336/3 "2016-06-29T22:36:13Z")

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Thanks Jorg, I'll check it out!

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**Author:** ![midget2000x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@midget2000x](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/midget2000x)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336/4 "2016-07-02T18:55:04Z")

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Jorg - I want to give this a try but the url to your plugin gives a 404:

[http://xbib.org/repository/org/xbib/elasticsearch/plugin/elasticsearch-condboost/2.3.3.1/elasticsearch-condboost-2.3.3.1-plugin.zip](http://xbib.org/repository/org/xbib/elasticsearch/plugin/elasticsearch-condboost/2.3.3.1/elasticsearch-condboost-2.3.3.1-plugin.zip)

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**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336/5 "2016-07-03T09:20:43Z")

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Sorry, the correct URL is

[http://xbib.org/repository/org/xbib/elasticsearch/plugin/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost/2.3.3.1/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost-2.3.3.1-plugin.zip](http://xbib.org/repository/org/xbib/elasticsearch/plugin/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost/2.3.3.1/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost-2.3.3.1-plugin.zip)

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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 5, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-e-commerce-specify-first-docs-products-for-specific-keywords/54336/6 "2017-07-05T22:38:48Z")

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