# Percolator not working with exact match
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-not-working-with-exact-match/32434
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 17, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-not-working-with-exact-match/32434 "2015-10-17T14:12:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@2trc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/2trc)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-not-working-with-exact-match/32434/1 "2015-10-17T14:12:03Z")
Hi guys,
I was reading about the percolator feature on [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-percolate.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-percolate.html) and I couldn't get exact matches (queries with quotes) to work.
The document {"message" : "A new bonsai tree in the office"} returns the queries "bonsai tree" and ""bonsai in the office"" as well.
See detail on gist: [https://gist.github.com/2trc/4c15213c64bd42af5aa3](https://gist.github.com/2trc/4c15213c64bd42af5aa3)
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### Author:  [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-not-working-with-exact-match/32434/2 "2015-10-17T20:36:02Z")
Did you try [Phrase Matching](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/phrase-matching.html)? I believe that one should work the way you expected the query with quotes to work.
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### Author:  [@2trc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/2trc)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-not-working-with-exact-match/32434/3 "2015-10-19T07:07:05Z")
"Phrase query" does work and I'm going to use that instead, thanks!
Should the quote issue be considered a bug?
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### Author:  [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-not-working-with-exact-match/32434/4 "2015-10-19T08:41:44Z")
I don't think it's a bug, quotes in match queries are analyzed like any other query string and the standard analyzer just discards them as punctuation. The expectation that this would work like a phrase match was the problem I think.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/percolator-not-working-with-exact-match/32434/5 "2017-07-05T23:44:07Z")