diff --git a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/SearchFiltering.java b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/SearchFiltering.java
index 9972081c3d..8748144048 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/SearchFiltering.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/SearchFiltering.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.controller;
 
 import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VitroVocabulary.ROLE_PUBLIC_URI;
+import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.controller.PagedSearchController.PARAM_QUERY_TEXT;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -167,6 +168,9 @@ public class SearchFiltering {
 
     protected static void addFiltersToQuery(SearchQuery query, Map<String, SearchFilter> filters) {
         for (SearchFilter searchFilter : filters.values()) {
+            if (PARAM_QUERY_TEXT.equals(searchFilter.getId())){
+                continue;
+            }
             if (searchFilter.isInput()) {
                 SearchFiltering.addInputFilter(query, searchFilter);
             } else if (searchFilter.isRange()) {
@@ -221,6 +225,12 @@ public static Map<String, List<String>> getRequestFilters(VitroRequest vreq) {
                     requestFilters.put(filterId, new LinkedList<String>(Arrays.asList(values[0])));
                 }
             }
+            if (paramFilterName.equals(PARAM_QUERY_TEXT)) {
+                String[] values = vreq.getParameterValues(paramFilterName);
+                if (values != null && values.length > 0) {
+                    requestFilters.put(PARAM_QUERY_TEXT, new LinkedList<String>(Arrays.asList(values[0])));
+                }
+            }
         }
         return requestFilters;
     }
diff --git a/home/src/main/resources/rdf/display/firsttime/search_individuals_vitro.n3 b/home/src/main/resources/rdf/display/firsttime/search_individuals_vitro.n3
index 8c8767dc3c..71528da03b 100644
--- a/home/src/main/resources/rdf/display/firsttime/search_individuals_vitro.n3
+++ b/home/src/main/resources/rdf/display/firsttime/search_individuals_vitro.n3
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 @prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
 
 :filter_group_search_filters  a    vitro-search:FilterGroup ;
-        vitro-search:contains      :filter_category , :filter_type , :filter_querytext;
+        vitro-search:contains      :filter_category , :filter_type ;
         vitro-search:id            "main" ;
         vitro-search:order         1 ;
         vitro-search:public        true .
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
         a                          vitro-search:Filter ;
         vitro-search:order         1 ;
         vitro-search:filterField   :field_querytext ;
+        vitro-search:userInput     true ;
         vitro-search:id            "querytext" ;
         vitro-search:public        true .