elasticsearch boost importance of exact phrase match

Question

Is there a way in elasticsearch to boost the importance of the exact phrase appearing in the the document?

For example if I was searching for the phrase \"web develo

Answer 1

As an alternative to javanna's answer, you could do something similar with must and should clauses within a bool query:

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": {
          "match": {
            "field": "web developer",
            "operator": "and"
          }
      },
      "should": {
          "match_phrase": {
            "field": "web developer"
          }
      }
    }
  }
}

Untested, but I believe the must clause here will match results containing both 'web' and 'developer' and the should clause will score phrases matching 'web developer' higher.