# Please help me understand Workplace Search results

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-help-me-understand-workplace-search-results/286652>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-workplace-search\
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-help-me-understand-workplace-search-results/286652 "2021-10-13T17:21:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mymail\_Cpn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mymail_cpn/32/82423_2.png) [@Mymail\_Cpn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mymail_Cpn)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-help-me-understand-workplace-search-results/286652/1 "2021-10-13T17:21:53Z")

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Hello,  
I am new to Elasticsearch and currently I am exploring workplace search. I have created couple of documents to search for.

I am wondering why my search is showing multiple results?  
My documents has partnumber (unique) and description and few other fields such as OE number, weight and vehicle names.  
When I search by unique partnumber = 601391 I was expecting one result. But It shows all products that starts with 60.

Am I missing something? Please help me understand.

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-help-me-understand-workplace-search-results/286652/2 "2021-10-13T19:06:55Z")

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Hey @Mymail_Cpn ,

Good question. The first thing to understand is that Workplace Search currently biases towards high recall over high precision. This means that we return any documents that even match a little bit of your query, as opposed to only returning a document that matches every part of your query. This is usually "ok", because we still attempt to sort the large number of results by the best fit. Does your exact-match document come back as the top result?

If you're wanting exact-matching, you can enable that with content source filters. See the docs for those here: [Customizing content source filters | Workplace Search Guide [7.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/workplace-search/current/workplace-search-customizing-filters.html). Combined with [Automatic query refinement](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/workplace-search/current/workplace-search-customizing-filters.html#enabling-automatic-query-refinement), this should allow you to use a search string like, `"with partnumber 601391"`, and get back only the single matching document.

Does that help?

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**Author:** ![Mymail\_Cpn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mymail_cpn/32/82423_2.png) [@Mymail\_Cpn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mymail_Cpn)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-help-me-understand-workplace-search-results/286652/3 "2021-10-13T19:39:19Z")

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Sean you are exactly right the exact-match document was the first on top of result set.

Thank you for pointing me to the content source filters. It's very helpful for my usecase.

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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:** [November 10, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-help-me-understand-workplace-search-results/286652/4 "2021-11-10T19:39:35Z")

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