# Multi type & multi\_match query - individual boosting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-type-multi-match-query-individual-boosting/95574>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-type-multi-match-query-individual-boosting/95574 "2017-08-02T16:01:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![karpatil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ba0ec/32.png) [@karpatil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karpatil)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-type-multi-match-query-individual-boosting/95574/1 "2017-08-02T16:01:56Z")

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I have two types: books, compositions. Both of them have an author (string) field:  
book.author and composition.author.

I would like to search in both of the two types at the same time, with multi\_match query, like:

```
GET /my_index/book,composition/_search
"query": {
    "multi_match" : {
        "query" : "Beethoven",
        "fields" : ["author", "title"]
    }
}

```

But the book's author is more important for me, so I need to boost it. How could I boost 3x times higher the books.author than the composition.author?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-type-multi-match-query-individual-boosting/95574/2 "2017-08-04T07:31:52Z")

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Check out the [index boost query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/search-request-index-boost.html)

--Alex

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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:** [September 1, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-type-multi-match-query-individual-boosting/95574/3 "2017-09-01T07:31:57Z")

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Closed on September 1, 2017, 7:31am UTC

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