# Hybrid Search with group\_by: Why Is score Missing in Metadata Query?

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/hybrid-search-with-group-by-why-is-score-missing-in-metadata-query/20588>\
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**Created:** [April 10, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/hybrid-search-with-group-by-why-is-score-missing-in-metadata-query/20588 "2025-04-10T04:14:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![user\_mollang](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/user_mollang/32/3524_2.png) [@user\_mollang](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/user_mollang)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/hybrid-search-with-group-by-why-is-score-missing-in-metadata-query/20588/1 "2025-04-10T04:14:50Z")

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I’m trying to perform a **hybrid search** and retrieve results **grouped by a specific property** , while also including the **relevance score** for each result.

To do this, I used `groupBy` and `metadataQuery` in my Weaviate GraphQL query. While the grouping works as expected, the `_score` is not returned in the metadata.

I’m wondering if this is a **current limitation** of the platform or if I might be **doing something wrong in my query**. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

**Hybrid Search Query Code**

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/weaviate/original/2X/e/e37dcd09fe421cba55d4597a01e09a4029748848.png)

**Search Result (`result.objects`) Output**

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/weaviate/original/2X/4/43fd36191dde196061f7f29fdb53f6ce2f00ad0d.png)

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/hybrid-search-with-group-by-why-is-score-missing-in-metadata-query/20588/2 "2025-04-10T13:10:55Z")

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hi @user_mollang !!

Hybrid search will fuse both the keywords search `score` and vector search `distance`.

So in a hybrid search, you don’t get a `distance`, but a `score`

If you are curious about what was the distance used, or how it normalized both keyword score and distance while fusing those, you can request the `explain_score` metadata.

Let me know if that helps!