# Inconsistent search scoring between shards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inconsistent-search-scoring-between-shards/163686>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 10, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inconsistent-search-scoring-between-shards/163686 "2019-01-10T09:18:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inconsistent-search-scoring-between-shards/163686/5 "2019-01-10T13:25:04Z")

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It's a setting passed as a URL parameter to the REST api as opposed to a field in the JSON body

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