# Score and boost in elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/score-and-boost-in-elasticsearch/7905
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 30, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/score-and-boost-in-elasticsearch/7905 "2012-05-30T05:41:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Jayati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jayati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jayati)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/score-and-boost-in-elasticsearch/7905/1 "2012-05-30T05:41:50Z")

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I am new to ElasticSearch, and not sure what score and boost means and what is the relevance of these two terms with queries ?

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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: [July 6, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/score-and-boost-in-elasticsearch/7905/2 "2017-07-06T03:26:21Z")

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