# Fuzzy Like This query not returning what I look for

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-like-this-query-not-returning-what-i-look-for/14026
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 19, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-like-this-query-not-returning-what-i-look-for/14026 "2013-10-19T12:21:33Z")
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### Author: ![rodrigoal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@rodrigoal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodrigoal)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-like-this-query-not-returning-what-i-look-for/14026/1 "2013-10-19T12:21:33Z")

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I'm using fuzzy like this query but I'm not getting the desired results:

for example, With this query:

```
"query": {
            "fuzzy_like_this" : {
                "fields" : ["entities.text", "title"],
                "like_text" : "bill clinton",
                "max_query_terms" : 12,
                "min_similarity": 0.65
            }
 }

```

I get this results(sorted by highest score):

```
"Watch Bill Nye, Dressed Like A Robot"
"Obama in Shutdown Politics Channels Bill Clinton..."
"Q&A: Carcass..." (there's an entity Bill Steer)
"Clinton: Obama "Right" no..."

```

I'd like the results to be more exclusive: if I look for "bill clinton" and  
put "bill cinton" in the search box, I'd like to get only the results who  
mentions bill clinton or something really similar. I tried changing  
"min\_similarity" to 0.9 but I keep getting the same results.

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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 6, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-like-this-query-not-returning-what-i-look-for/14026/2 "2017-07-06T02:11:39Z")

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