# How to Normalize across multiple search results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-normalize-across-multiple-search-results/225454
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-normalize-across-multiple-search-results/225454 "2020-03-27T18:24:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Abhinav\_Keshri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhinav_Keshri)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-normalize-across-multiple-search-results/225454/1 "2020-03-27T18:24:30Z")
I need some help in normalizing the score using Elastic Search. Before I proceed on to problem, some variables that are making an already difficult process even more difficult are discussed below. I use the following which can impact the process:-
**1) N-Gram**
**2) Fuzziness**
**3) Custom Queries**
**4) Phonetic Search using custom filters**
_Now, my issue is say if I am doing search for 'Alice' and the best result is also 'Alice' with a score of 500, but for 'Cathy' whose best result is also 'Cathy' score is 200. If I take max score as the base to calculate for every other result, then also there is a problem. For example, let us say I searched for 'Hunan' for which best result is 'Rohan' with a score of 300. So the similarity score for 'Hunan' and 'Rohan' will be 100% even when they are hardly similar._
Moving on I am also trying to normalize score across searches, say search result with and without using phonetic search. If I can normalize the score for the two then I can stack them in an order of preference but otherwise I will have to show these results separetely.
Please let me know what I can do to resolve this issue.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-normalize-across-multiple-search-results/225454/2 "2020-03-29T15:15:38Z")
Scores are not normalized in Elasticsearch, so I am not sure this this at all possible.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-normalize-across-multiple-search-results/225454/3 "2020-04-26T15:20:40Z")
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