# Searching text vs keyword fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-text-vs-keyword-fields/189589
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-text-vs-keyword-fields/189589 "2019-07-09T15:58:11Z")
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### Author:  [@wwalker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wwalker)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-text-vs-keyword-fields/189589/1 "2019-07-09T15:58:11Z")
After looking at the documentation, I was under the impression that searching a keyword field would be quicker, since a keyword field is analyzed by the entirety of it's content vs a text field analyzed by each word in the field.
Doing a simple search on a field looking for it to match `false` takes tens of seconds longer on the keyword value vs the text value. Am I misunderstanding this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-text-vs-keyword-fields/189589/2 "2019-08-06T15:58:19Z")
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