Using phrase query to search
We added some documents to the index that we created. Now, let's examine some ways to query our data. Elasticsearch provides many types of queries to query our indexed documents. Of all the ones available, the simple query string query is a great place to start. The main advantage of this query is that it will never throw an exception. Also, a simple query string query discards the invalid parts of the query.
It mostly covers what is expected from most of the search engines. It takes OR of all the terms present in the query text, though we can change this behavior to AND. Also, it recognizes all Boolean keywords in the query text and performs the search accordingly. For details, you can look through http://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html ...
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