Hello , The direction you are heading is of the synonym analyzer. You can declare your synonym set as & => and and set it as a synonym token filter. What this means is that , while indexing , if its sees & , it will register "and" also against that position.
SYNONYM TOKEN FILTER - http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-synonym-tokenfilter.html#analysis-synonym-tokenfilter Thanks Vineeth On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Teodor Pripoae <teodor.prip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ES index where I store companies indexed by name. Is there any > way so I can search by similar words ? > > For example I have the name "Discount Pets & Supplies" and I want to also > be able to query like "Discount Pets and Supplies", so basically I'm asking > if there is a way to mark "&" as equivalent to "and". > > Thank you, > Teodor > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/062b033b-6135-4e15-98d3-1767444f5006%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/062b033b-6135-4e15-98d3-1767444f5006%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5m24gVULhcPNrjWqQYvKrGkJBLmfAb9fKwMVy49YWWqFw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
