# Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search/3139>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search/3139 "2010-07-22T15:19:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![megAmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@megAmin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/megAmin)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search/3139/1 "2010-07-22T15:19:59Z")

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are there any reserved words which are not included when searching? for  
example when i give value as "this\*" nothing is returned, but "th\*" or  
"thi\*" returns data and yes i have lots of data starting with "this".

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**Author:** ![Berkay\_Mollamustafao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Berkay\_Mollamustafao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Berkay_Mollamustafao)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search/3139/2 "2010-07-22T15:32:44Z")

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These are called stop words, and it is configurable. Defaults are typical  
english words, this is likely one of them.  
There is some information via the link below

[www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/index\_modules/analysis/](http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/index_modules/analysis/)  
[http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/index\_modules/analysis/](http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/index_modules/analysis/)  
Regards,  
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu  
mberkay on yahoo, google and skype

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, megha a [amin.megha@gmail.com](mailto:amin.megha@gmail.com) wrote:

> are there any reserved words which are not included when searching? for  
> example when i give value as "this\*" nothing is returned, but "th\*" or  
> "thi\*" returns data and yes i have lots of data starting with "this".

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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, 4:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search/3139/3 "2017-07-06T04:21:49Z")

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