# Is this type of sorting possible?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-type-of-sorting-possible/81193>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 4, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-type-of-sorting-possible/81193 "2017-04-04T18:04:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![twisted1919](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@twisted1919](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/twisted1919)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-type-of-sorting-possible/81193/1 "2017-04-04T18:04:34Z")

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Hi guys,

I have a small instance of ES that has indexed a bit over 1k documents with fields like: `title`, `description`, `date_added`, `last_updated`.

The `title` and `description` are using this analyzer:

```
'stringLowercase' => array(
    'type' => 'custom',
    'tokenizer' => 'keyword',
    'filter' => array('standard', 'lowercase', 'stop', 'minimalEnglishStem')
),

```

(minimalEnglishStem is just the `minimal_english` stemmer)

At this moment, we're doing wildcard searches on the title and description and we give the title a higher boost than we give to description, which overall works fine, so let's say i am searching for the word `seo` i get all the posts which contain the word in either title or description ordered by the date they have been added.

What we would like to do, is to order the results so that we put the ones having the word `seo` in the title first and then at the end, the ones that contain the word `seo` in description.

Is this doable somehow?  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-type-of-sorting-possible/81193/2 "2017-04-05T14:16:04Z")

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Have a look at field boosting in the [`multi_match`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html) query.

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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:** [May 3, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-type-of-sorting-possible/81193/3 "2017-05-03T14:16:28Z")

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