# Incorrect relevance score of documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 8, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364 "2017-07-08T13:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![gtulsyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@gtulsyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gtulsyan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364/1 "2017-07-08T13:47:38Z")

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Hi,  
I just started with the elastic search tutorial and was following the the documentation on full-text search from [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/\_full\_text\_search.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_full_text_search.html)  
When I ran the same query in kibana console I got this result.  
Input:

GET /megacorp/employee/\_search  
{  
"query" : {  
"match" : {  
"about" : "rock climbing"  
}  
}  
}  
Output:  
{  
"took": 2,  
"timed\_out": false,  
"\_shards": {  
"total": 5,  
"successful": 5,  
"failed": 0  
},  
"hits": {  
"total": 2,  
"max\_score": 0.26742277,  
"hits": [  
{  
"\_index": "megacorp",  
"\_type": "employee",  
"\_id": "2",  
"\_score": 0.26742277,  
"\_source": {  
"first\_name": "Jane",  
"last\_name": "Smith",  
"age": 32,  
"about": "I like to collect rock albums",  
"interests": [  
"music"  
]  
}  
},  
{  
"\_index": "megacorp",  
"\_type": "employee",  
"\_id": "1",  
"\_score": 0.24825554,  
"\_source": {  
"first\_name": "John",  
"last\_name": "Smith",  
"age": 25,  
"about": "I love to go rock climbing",  
"interests": [  
"sports",  
"music"  
]  
}  
}  
]  
}  
}

The relevance here is incorrect. Am I doing something wrong.  
FYI I followed the tutorial as is from the start and didn't modified the docs for indexing.

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**Author:** ![thiago](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thiago/32/32096_2.png) [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364/2 "2017-07-08T15:27:13Z")

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Can you please post the output of `GET /megacorp/_search?size=0` ?

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**Author:** ![gtulsyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@gtulsyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gtulsyan)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364/3 "2017-07-08T15:47:01Z")

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> [@thiago](#):
>
> GET /megacorp/\_search?size=0

{  
"took": 18,  
"timed\_out": false,  
"\_shards": {  
"total": 5,  
"successful": 5,  
"failed": 0  
},  
"hits": {  
"total": 3,  
"max\_score": 0,  
"hits":   
}  
}

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**Author:** ![thiago](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thiago/32/32096_2.png) [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364/4 "2017-07-08T15:52:03Z")

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You have a third document indexed there. That affects scoring. For more info see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/controlling-relevance.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/controlling-relevance.html)

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364/5 "2017-07-08T15:59:38Z")

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Also try with one shard only

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**Author:** ![thiago](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thiago/32/32096_2.png) [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364/6 "2017-07-08T16:04:57Z")

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> [@dadoonet](#):
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> Also try with one shard only

Nice catch @dadoonet

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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:** [August 5, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incorrect-relevance-score-of-documents/92364/7 "2017-08-05T16:05:09Z")

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