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Prioritizing a title match over content match

It is often required that you conduct a search on multiple fields, but then, it's also important to make sure that certain field matches are prioritized over the others to make the search results more relevant.

If we are using a multifield search, it is a good idea to use a multisearch query. Here, you can give multiple fields and also prioritize on some of the fields. An example of this is as follows:

{
  "query": {
    "multi_match": {
      "query": "white elephant",
      "fields": [
        "Title^10",
        "Content"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Here, we search on both the Title and Content field and prioritize the Title field match over the Content field match. The ^10 parameter next to the Title field name makes sure that the match over the Title ...