# Has anyone built an authenticated search engine using Elasticsearch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\ **Created:** [June 13, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-built-an-authenticated-search-engine-using-elasticsearch/135802 "2018-06-13T22:41:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jerrac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jerrac/32/52980_2.png) [@jerrac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerrac)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-built-an-authenticated-search-engine-using-elasticsearch/135802/1 "2018-06-13T22:41:46Z")
It's been a while since I [first asked](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-heard-of-an-authenticated-search-engine/105283?u=jerrac) and the new App-Search product got me wondering again. Here at work we have many different tools being used to store information. Our only search is either the tools built-in engine, or Google Custom Search for public content. I'd love to have a search engine that could index all our different tools, and then only display results to the user that the user is authorized to access. So, an employee could do a search and get results from PBWiki's they are members of, and a student could search the same term, and they would not get results from the PBWiki's. Anyway, I hope that describes what I'm looking for well enough. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-built-an-authenticated-search-engine-using-elasticsearch/135802/2 "2018-07-11T22:42:09Z")
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