diff --git a/app/app/views.py b/app/app/views.py
index 4a15de11..f8cc1b29 100644
--- a/app/app/views.py
+++ b/app/app/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-import os
-
-from django.contrib.postgres.search import SearchHeadline, SearchQuery, SearchRank
 from django.core.paginator import EmptyPage, PageNotAnInteger, Paginator
 from django.db.models import Count
 from django.http import HttpResponse
@@ -230,45 +227,6 @@ def institutions(request):
     return render(request, template_name=template, context=context)
 
 
-def search(request):
-    q = request.GET.get("q")
-
-    if q:
-        queue = SearchQuery(q)
-        search_headline = SearchHeadline("document_data", queue)
-
-        documents = (
-            DocumentFile.objects.annotate(rank=SearchRank("search_vector", queue))
-            .annotate(search_headline=search_headline)
-            .filter(search_vector=queue)
-            .order_by("-rank")
-        )
-
-    else:
-        documents = None
-
-    # Create a Paginator instance with the documents and the number of items per page
-    paginator = Paginator(documents, 10) if documents else None  # Show 10 documents per page
-
-    # Get the page number from the request's GET parameters
-    page_number = request.GET.get("page")
-
-    # Use the get_page method to get the Page object for that page number
-    page_obj = paginator.get_page(page_number) if paginator else None
-
-    feature_flag = os.getenv("FEATURE_FLAG", False)
-
-    template = "app/search.html"
-    context = {
-        "documents": page_obj,
-        "current_page": "search",
-        "document_count": len(documents) if documents else 0,
-        "feature_flag": feature_flag,
-    }
-
-    return render(request, template_name=template, context=context)
-
-
 def search(request):
     page_number = request.GET.get("page", "1")
     if not page_number.isdigit():