# Elasticsearch: The suggest functionality
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-the-suggest-functionality/87470
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 29, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-the-suggest-functionality/87470 "2017-05-29T15:18:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@zak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zak)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-the-suggest-functionality/87470/1 "2017-05-29T15:18:20Z")
Hello,
The suggest functionality works on our data in the index ,but I want to exploit the research history in order to improve The suggest functionality.
How I can put research query into my index?
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### Author:  [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-the-suggest-functionality/87470/2 "2017-05-30T10:41:02Z")
Hi,
this is something that you need to do in whatever client application drives your search. There's a lot of application specific decisions to be made when you do, that's why Elasticsearch cannot do this out of the box.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-the-suggest-functionality/87470/3 "2017-06-27T10:41:11Z")
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