# Min\_similarity gets ignored in flt query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-similarity-gets-ignored-in-flt-query/14036>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 21, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-similarity-gets-ignored-in-flt-query/14036 "2013-10-21T11:46:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rodrigoal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@rodrigoal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodrigoal)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-similarity-gets-ignored-in-flt-query/14036/1 "2013-10-21T11:46:23Z")

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I'm using fuzzy like this query but I'm not getting the desired results:

for example, With this query:

```
"query": {

            "fuzzy_like_this" : {

                "fields" : ["entities.text", "title"],

                "like_text" : "bill clinton",

                "max_query_terms" : 12,

                "min_similarity": 0.65

            }

 }

```

I get this results(sorted by highest score):

```
"Watch Bill Nye, Dressed Like A Robot"

"Obama in Shutdown Politics Channels Bill Clinton..."

"Q&A: Carcass..." (there's an entity Bill Steer)

"Clinton: Obama "Right" no..."

```

I'd like the results to be more exclusive: if I look for "bill  
clinton" and put "bill cinton" in the search box, I'd like to get only  
the results who mentions bill clinton or something really similar. I  
tried changing "min\_similarity" to 0.9 but I keep getting the same  
results.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/min-similarity-gets-ignored-in-flt-query/14036/2 "2017-07-06T02:11:28Z")

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