# Remove poor results?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-poor-results/132303
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 17, 2018, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-poor-results/132303 "2018-05-17T10:12:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Arth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arth)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2018, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-poor-results/132303/1 "2018-05-17T10:12:42Z")
Hi,
Is there an easy way to remove hits which have very low scores compared to the max score (percentage ?) ?
The "min\_score" parameter will not make much sense for every search.
For example, sometimes I can get a response with 30 000 hits by entering 5 very common keywords and I would like to remove the 20 000 poorest results. But I would like to keep all the results if I get 10 hits with a low score by entering a very unusal keyword like "platypus".
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-poor-results/132303/2 "2018-05-20T09:27:23Z")
There's not because Elasticsearch has no idea how many results there would be, you'd need to do it in your client.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-poor-results/132303/3 "2018-06-17T09:27:35Z")
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