# Reduce importance of multiple occurences of a searched term

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reduce-importance-of-multiple-occurences-of-a-searched-term/151466>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 8, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reduce-importance-of-multiple-occurences-of-a-searched-term/151466 "2018-10-08T13:46:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@Arth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arth)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reduce-importance-of-multiple-occurences-of-a-searched-term/151466/1 "2018-10-08T13:46:33Z")

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Hi,  
Documents containing several times the searched term get much stronger scores compared with those containing the searched term only once ?  
Is it possible to mitigate this effect please ?  
Thank you

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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 5, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reduce-importance-of-multiple-occurences-of-a-searched-term/151466/2 "2018-11-05T13:46:33Z")

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