# Why do term queries and query\_string queries produce different results for the same query?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 13, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853 "2013-12-13T13:47:06Z")
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### Author:  [@project2501](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/project2501)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853/1 "2013-12-13T13:47:06Z")
If I have a term query that is simple text:people
and then I have a query\_string that is also "text:people" they produce
different number of results.
Why is that?
thank you!
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### Author:  [@johtani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johtani)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853/2 "2013-12-13T14:59:27Z")
Hi,
term query is not analyze a given term, directly search inverted index.
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query\_string query is analyze a given term using analyzer defined the field
(your example : "text").
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What kind of analyzer is "text" field?
regards,
Jun Ohtani
2013/12/13 project2501 [darreng5150@gmail.com](mailto:darreng5150@gmail.com)
> If I have a term query that is simple text:people
> and then I have a query\_string that is also "text:people" they produce
> different number of results.
>
> Why is that?
>
> thank you!
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### Author:  [@project2501](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/project2501)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853/3 "2013-12-13T15:08:23Z")
snowball
On Friday, December 13, 2013 9:59:27 AM UTC-5, Jun Ohtani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> term query is not analyze a given term, directly search inverted index.
>
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-term-query.html)
>
> query\_string query is analyze a given term using analyzer defined the
> field (your example : "text").
>
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html)
>
> What kind of analyzer is "text" field?
>
> regards,
>
> Jun Ohtani
>
> 2013/12/13 project2501 \<[darre...@gmail.com](mailto:darre...@gmail.com) \\>
>
> > If I have a term query that is simple text:people
> > and then I have a query\_string that is also "text:people" they produce
> > different number of results.
> >
> > Why is that?
> >
> > thank you!
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### Author:  [@johtani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johtani)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853/4 "2013-12-13T15:15:20Z")
Hi
snowball analyzer stem last "e".
You run following command :
[http://localhost:9200/\_analyze?analyzer=snowball&text=people&pretty](http://localhost:9200/_analyze?analyzer=snowball&text=people&pretty)
You receive following response.
{
"tokens" : [ {
"token" : "peopl",
"start\_offset" : 0,
"end\_offset" : 6,
"type" : "",
"position" : 1
} ]
}
query\_string query search "peopl" term, but term query search "people".
If you use term "peopl", then the number of results using term query is
equal the number of results using query\_string query.
regards,
2013/12/14 project2501 [darreng5150@gmail.com](mailto:darreng5150@gmail.com)
> snowball
>
> On Friday, December 13, 2013 9:59:27 AM UTC-5, Jun Ohtani wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > term query is not analyze a given term, directly search inverted index.
> > [Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/)
> > reference/current/query-dsl-term-query.html
> >
> > query\_string query is analyze a given term using analyzer defined the
> > field (your example : "text").
> > [Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/)
> > reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html
> >
> > What kind of analyzer is "text" field?
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Jun Ohtani
> >
> > 2013/12/13 project2501 [darre...@gmail.com](mailto:darre...@gmail.com)
> >
> > > If I have a term query that is simple text:people
> > > and then I have a query\_string that is also "text:people" they produce
> > > different number of results.
> > >
> > > Why is that?
> > >
> > > thank you!
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### Author:  [@project2501](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/project2501)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853/5 "2013-12-13T15:59:17Z")
Thank you for the help. Very appreciated! It makes a lot of sense now.
On Friday, December 13, 2013 10:15:20 AM UTC-5, Jun Ohtani wrote:
> Hi
>
> snowball analyzer stem last "e".
>
> You run following command :
> [http://localhost:9200/\_analyze?analyzer=snowball&text=people&pretty](http://localhost:9200/_analyze?analyzer=snowball&text=people&pretty)
>
> You receive following response.
>
> {
> "tokens" : [ {
> "token" : "peopl",
> "start\_offset" : 0,
> "end\_offset" : 6,
> "type" : "",
> "position" : 1
> } ]
> }
>
> query\_string query search "peopl" term, but term query search "people".
> If you use term "peopl", then the number of results using term query is
> equal the number of results using query\_string query.
>
> regards,
>
> 2013/12/14 project2501 \<[darre...@gmail.com](mailto:darre...@gmail.com) \\>
>
> > snowball
> >
> > On Friday, December 13, 2013 9:59:27 AM UTC-5, Jun Ohtani wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > term query is not analyze a given term, directly search inverted index.
> > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/)
> > > reference/current/query-dsl-term-query.html
> > >
> > > query\_string query is analyze a given term using analyzer defined the
> > > field (your example : "text").
> > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/)
> > > reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html
> > >
> > > What kind of analyzer is "text" field?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > Jun Ohtani
> > >
> > > 2013/12/13 project2501 [darre...@gmail.com](mailto:darre...@gmail.com)
> > >
> > > > If I have a term query that is simple text:people
> > > > and then I have a query\_string that is also "text:people" they produce
> > > > different number of results.
> > > >
> > > > Why is that?
> > > >
> > > > thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-do-term-queries-and-query-string-queries-produce-different-results-for-the-same-query/14853/6 "2017-07-06T02:01:18Z")