diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d07feb9..1dc5914 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ For example, if you want to search the name, email address and username of a use
 $users = Searchy::users('name', 'email', 'username')->query('John Smith');
 ```
 
+#### Searching Joined/Concatenated Columns
+Sometimes you may want to leverage searches on concatenated column. For example, on a `first_name` and `last_name` field but you only want to run the one query. To do this can separate columns with a double colon:
+```php
+$users = Searchy::users('first_name::last_name')->query('John Smith');
+```
 
 Configuration
 ----------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/TomLingham/Searchy/Matchers/ConsecutiveCharactersMatcher.php b/src/TomLingham/Searchy/Matchers/ConsecutiveCharactersMatcher.php
index 58d419b..872b836 100644
--- a/src/TomLingham/Searchy/Matchers/ConsecutiveCharactersMatcher.php
+++ b/src/TomLingham/Searchy/Matchers/ConsecutiveCharactersMatcher.php
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ class ConsecutiveCharactersMatcher extends BaseMatcher
 	{
 		$searchString = $this->formatSearchString( $rawString );
 
-		return "IF($column {$this->operator} '$searchString', ROUND({$this->multiplier} * (CHAR_LENGTH( '$rawString' ) / CHAR_LENGTH( REPLACE($column, ' ', '') ))), 0)";
+		return "IF(REPLACE($column, '\.', '') {$this->operator} '$searchString', ROUND({$this->multiplier} * (CHAR_LENGTH( '$rawString' ) / CHAR_LENGTH( REPLACE($column, ' ', '') ))), 0)";
 	}
 }
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diff --git a/src/TomLingham/Searchy/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php b/src/TomLingham/Searchy/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php
index 6377398..414c823 100644
--- a/src/TomLingham/Searchy/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php
+++ b/src/TomLingham/Searchy/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php
@@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ abstract class BaseSearchDriver implements SearchDriverInterface {
 		$query = [];
 
 		foreach ($searchFields as $searchField) {
-			$query[] = $this->buildSelectCriteria( $searchField );
+			if (strpos($searchField, '::')){
+				$concatString = explode('::', $searchField);
+				$query[] = $this->buildSelectCriteria( "CONCAT({$concatString[0]}, ' ', {$concatString[1]})");
+			} else {
+				$query[] = $this->buildSelectCriteria( $searchField );
+			}
 		}
 
 		return \DB::raw(implode(' + ', $query) . ' AS ' . \Config::get('searchy::fieldName'));