# Multi-word, multi-term querystring query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-multi-term-querystring-query/215509>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 17, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-multi-term-querystring-query/215509 "2020-01-17T19:33:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![David\_Von\_Lehman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/david_von_lehman/32/60992_2.png) [@David\_Von\_Lehman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Von_Lehman)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-multi-term-querystring-query/215509/1 "2020-01-17T19:33:58Z")

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When running a multi-term querystring query with multiple search fields, I get different results depending on if there is a boolean operator present.

For example if I have the following document:

```auto
{
   title: "Car",
   description: "Boat"
}

```

When I run the following query I get back 0 hits.

```auto
{
 "query": {
   "query_string": {
      "default_operator": "AND",
      "fields": ["title", "description"],
      "query": "Car Boat"
  }
}

```

But if I add an "AND" in the query I get back the 1 hit as expected:

```auto
{
 "query": {
   "query_string": {
      "default_operator": "AND",
      "fields": ["title", "description"],
      "query": "Car AND Boat"
  }
}

```

I would have thought setting the `default_operator` to "AND" would have resulted in the same hits.

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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:** [January 18, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-multi-term-querystring-query/215509/2 "2020-01-18T07:59:37Z")

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Welcome!

@jimczi any idea?

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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:** [February 15, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-multi-term-querystring-query/215509/3 "2020-02-15T07:59:46Z")

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