title: Use other aggregate operators before search
body: <p>I've been exploring Atlas search and using its index to do a search on the data but before using the &quot;$search&quot; operator in the pipeline I want to narrow down the data by using a filter before that. But MongoDB doesn't allow that. Is there any way in which I can use a $match or any other operator before using $search to narrow down the data and improve performance</p>