# Filter order influences results

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-order-influences-results/220857>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-order-influences-results/220857 "2020-02-25T12:41:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![jakobLIS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jakobLIS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jakobLIS)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-order-influences-results/220857/1 "2020-02-25T12:41:04Z")

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Hey everybody!

For our elastic search implementation we use a custom analyzer looking like so:

```auto
 'my_analyzer':
  tokenizer: 'standard'
  filter: ['german_stop', 'english_stop', 'german_stemmer', 'english_stemmer', 'synonym', 'lowercase']
  char_filter: ['html_strip']

```

We use this for all languages on our site, thats why we have english and german filters in there.

I noticed that e.g. the `lowercase` filter only works if it is somewhere at the beginning of the array. In this order, I cant find the word `Maxis` if I search for `maxis`. Could somebody explain why that is?

Any explanation would be appreciated. Thank you guys  
Jakob

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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:** [March 24, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-order-influences-results/220857/2 "2020-03-24T12:41:12Z")

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