# QueryBuilders.queryString() does not seems to work properly for me
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querybuilders-querystring-does-not-seems-to-work-properly-for-me/5390
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 15, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querybuilders-querystring-does-not-seems-to-work-properly-for-me/5390 "2011-09-15T20:20:22Z")
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### Author:  [@noor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/noor)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querybuilders-querystring-does-not-seems-to-work-properly-for-me/5390/1 "2011-09-15T20:20:22Z")
Hi,
I had indexed two documents named "tweet" under "default" index. where
each tweet document has a property named "message" which contains two
different paragraphs that I got from some web site. After successfully
adding them to elastic search when try to query then using below code
snippet I do not get any result when I pass_was_ or _of_ in
queryString as my search terms but when I pass _in_ or even _is_ I get
both documents in result. All the search terms that I had mentioned
earlier exists in both documents could anyone please explain what is
the actual problem.
SearchResponse response = client.prepareSearch("default")
.setSearchType(SearchType.DFS\_QUERY\_THEN\_FETCH)
.setQuery(QueryBuilders.queryString("_was_"))
.setFrom(0).setSize(60).setExplain(false)
.execute()
.actionGet();
---
### Author:  [@noor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/noor)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querybuilders-querystring-does-not-seems-to-work-properly-for-me/5390/2 "2011-09-16T05:49:41Z")
Even below code is not working ☹
```
SearchResponse response =
```
client.prepareSearch("default").setTypes("Tweet")
.setSearchType(SearchType.DFS\_QUERY\_THEN\_FETCH)
.setQuery(QueryBuilders.wildcardQuery("message","_was_"))
.setFrom(0).setSize(60).setExplain(false)
.execute()
.actionGet();
---
### Author:  [@Jan\_Fiedler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jan_Fiedler)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querybuilders-querystring-does-not-seems-to-work-properly-for-me/5390/3 "2011-09-16T14:32:31Z")
I would assume you do not have a mapping setup (relying on default mapping).
This would mean your message is analyzed with the standard analyzer. This
would mean that - by default - English stop words would be removed from your
content. I did not check but would assume that 'was' is considered a stop
word. Please try your query with a term that is not a stopword AND remove
the wildcards (they are not required with a full text search engine).
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querybuilders-querystring-does-not-seems-to-work-properly-for-me/5390/4 "2017-07-06T03:54:18Z")