# Proximity search - percentage - more than one result
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proximity-search-percentage-more-than-one-result/15821
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 15, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proximity-search-percentage-more-than-one-result/15821 "2014-02-15T01:28:13Z")
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### Author:  [@janek\_sendrowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/janek_sendrowski)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proximity-search-percentage-more-than-one-result/15821/1 "2014-02-15T01:28:13Z")
Hi,
Is there the possibility to specify a percentage value, when performing the
proximity search.
LIKE: "this is an example"~0.5 (This doesn't work)
Furthermore I like to know if there is a way to get the N best results, not
only the best.
Thank you for your answers!
Janek Sendrowski
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proximity-search-percentage-more-than-one-result/15821/2 "2014-02-20T09:00:01Z")
Hey,
the main question is, what does proximity mean for you? Could be several
things
- Words should be similar to the ones specified (including typos)
- Words should be exact, but the occurance of each words should be near to
each other
- The whole phrase should be similar
- etc...
You might want to take a look at the fuzzy queries, at phonetic analyzers
and, if you want proximity search like described in
> **[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale](https://www.elastic.co)**
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then you need to specify a number greather than one in order to define the
distance.
hope this helps a bit
--Alex
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:28 AM, janek sendrowski
[j.sendrowski18@gmail.com](mailto:j.sendrowski18@gmail.com)wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there the possibility to specify a percentage value, when performing
> the proximity search.
>
> LIKE: "this is an example"~0.5 (This doesn't work)
>
> Furthermore I like to know if there is a way to get the N best results,
> not only the best.
>
> Thank you for your answers!
>
> Janek Sendrowski
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/proximity-search-percentage-more-than-one-result/15821/3 "2017-07-06T01:48:48Z")