# Search IMprovement Request
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-improvement-request/16643
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 27, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-improvement-request/16643 "2014-03-27T13:50:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Praveenkumar\_Arepall](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praveenkumar_Arepall)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-improvement-request/16643/1 "2014-03-27T13:50:20Z")
Please guide me to get knowledge in Elasticsearch
Here is my problem
I have User form having 40 fields something like
Salutaion,firstName,lastName,
emailId,phoneNumber,facebookUrl,Description,skype....etc
I filled the form like
Document #1
salutation : Dr.
firstName : Clark
lastName : Kenny
[emailId:clark@clark.com](mailto:emailId:clark@clark.com),clark2@clark.com,clark3@clark.com
skype : clark.josi
facebookUrl : [www.facebook.com/clark](http://www.facebook.com/clark)
..
..
Document #2
salutation : ""
firstName : Kenny
lastName : Clark
[emailId:josephGerald@example.com](mailto:emailId:josephGerald@example.com)
skype : josi
facebookUrl : ""
..
..
Now searched for "Kenny clark"
the order of results are
Document #1 --score : 0.4585
Document #2 --score ; 0.3954
But i want Document #2 as first result
i used matchQuery like
QueryBuilders.matchQuery("firstName","searchText").boost(0.99f);
QueryBuilders.matchQuery("emailId","searchText").boost(0.8f);
Could you please explain me how boost and score works?
Please share any Elasticsearch Java API notes.
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### Author:  [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-improvement-request/16643/2 "2014-03-27T16:00:50Z")
This might a little more detailed than you want, but there is some basic
info here about how relevance/scoring works:
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/relevance-intro.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/relevance-intro.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-improvement-request/16643/3 "2017-07-06T01:40:07Z")