diff --git a/scripts/docs/deploy.sh b/scripts/docs/deploy.sh
index 31169cc9ec..855cc1dde5 100755
--- a/scripts/docs/deploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/docs/deploy.sh
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ function run {
   gulp docs.sass-variables
   cp tmp/sass.json $SITE_DIR/docs/v2/theming/overriding-ionic-variables/
 
-  # generate search index
-  gulp docs.index
-
   # CD in to the site dir to commit updated docs
   cd $SITE_DIR
 
diff --git a/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js b/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js
index 67a17561a4..1caa201f2b 100644
--- a/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js
+++ b/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js
@@ -31,145 +31,6 @@ module.exports = function(gulp, flags) {
       .pipe(gulp.dest(config.docsDest + '/dist'));
   });
 
-  gulp.task('docs.index', function() {
-    var lunr = require('lunr');
-    var gutil = require('gulp-util');
-    var es = require('event-stream');
-    var yaml = require('js-yaml');
-    var htmlparser = require('htmlparser2');
-    var mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
-    var fs = require('fs');
-
-    var idx = lunr(function() {
-      this.field('path');
-      this.field('title', {boost: 10});
-      this.field('body');
-      this.ref('id');
-    });
-    var ref = {};
-    var refId = 0;
-
-    function addToIndex(path, title, layout, body) {
-      // Add the data to the indexer and ref object
-      idx.add({'path': path, 'body': body, 'title': title, id: refId});
-      ref[refId] = {'p': path, 't': title, 'l': layout};
-      refId++;
-    }
-
-    var docPath = config.docsDest;
-    gutil.log('Reading docs from', gutil.colors.cyan(docPath));
-
-    return gulp.src([
-      docPath + '/{guide,api,overview, what-is,utilities,ui,theming,native}/**/*.{md,html,markdown}',
-      docPath + '/index.md',
-    ])
-      .pipe(es.map(function(file, callback) {
-        //docs for gulp file objects: https://github.com/wearefractal/vinyl
-        var contents = file.contents.toString(); //was buffer
-
-        // Grab relative path from ionic-site root
-        var relpath = file.path.replace(RegExp('^.*?' + docPath.replace('/' + config.v2DocsDir, '') + '/'), '');
-
-        // Read out the yaml portion of the Jekyll file
-        var yamlStartIndex = contents.indexOf('---');
-
-        if (yamlStartIndex === -1) {
-          return callback();
-        }
-
-        // read Jekyll's page yaml variables at the top of the file
-        var yamlEndIndex = contents.indexOf('---', yamlStartIndex+3); //starting from start
-        var yamlRaw = contents.substring(yamlStartIndex+3, yamlEndIndex);
-
-        var pageData =  yaml.safeLoad(yamlRaw);
-        if(!pageData.title || !pageData.layout) {
-          return callback();
-        }
-
-        // manually set to not be searchable, or for a blog post, manually set to be searchable
-        if(pageData.searchable === false || (pageData.layout == 'post' && pageData.searchable !== true)) {
-          return callback();
-        }
-
-        // clean up some content so code variables are searchable too
-        contents = contents.substring(yamlEndIndex+3);
-        contents = contents.replace(/<code?>/gi, '');
-        contents = contents.replace(/<\/code>/gi, '');
-        contents = contents.replace(/<code?></gi, '');
-        contents = contents.replace(/><\/code>/gi, '');
-        contents = contents.replace(/`</gi, '');
-        contents = contents.replace(/>`/gi, '');
-
-        // create a clean path to the URL
-        var path = '/' + relpath.replace('index.md', '')
-                                .replace('index.html', '')
-                                .replace('.md', '.html')
-                                .replace('.markdown', '.html');
-        if(pageData.layout == 'post') {
-          path = '/blog/' + path.substring(19).replace('.html', '/');
-        }
-
-        var parser;
-        if(pageData.search_sections === true) {
-          // each section within the content should be its own search result
-          var section = { body: '', title: '' };
-          var isTitleOpen = false;
-
-          parser = new htmlparser.Parser({
-            ontext: function(text){
-              if(isTitleOpen) {
-                section.title += text; // get the title of this section
-              } else {
-                section.body += text.replace(/{%.*%}/, '', 'g'); // Ignore any Jekyll expressions
-              }
-            },
-            onopentag: function(name, attrs) {
-              if(name == 'section' && attrs.id) {
-                // start building new section data
-                section = { body: '', path: path + '#' + attrs.id, title: '' };
-              } else if( (name == 'h1' || name == 'h2' || name == 'h3') && attrs.class == 'title') {
-                isTitleOpen = true; // the next text will be this sections title
-              }
-            },
-            onclosetag: function(name) {
-              if(name == 'section') {
-                // section closed, index this section then clear it out
-                addToIndex(section.path, section.title, pageData.layout, section.body);
-                section = { body: '', title: '' };
-              } else if( (name == 'h1' || name == 'h2' || name == 'h3') && isTitleOpen) {
-                isTitleOpen = false;
-              }
-            }
-          });
-          parser.write(contents);
-          parser.end();
-
-        } else {
-          // index the entire page
-          var body = '';
-          parser = new htmlparser.Parser({
-            ontext: function(text){
-              body += text.replace(/{%.*%}/, '', 'g'); // Ignore any Jekyll expressions
-            }
-          });
-          parser.write(contents);
-          parser.end();
-
-          addToIndex(path, pageData.title, pageData.layout, body);
-        }
-
-        callback();
-
-      })).on('end', function() {
-        // Write out as one json file
-        mkdirp.sync(docPath + '/data');
-        fs.writeFileSync(
-          docPath + '/data/v2-index.json',
-          JSON.stringify({'ref': ref, 'index': idx.toJSON()})
-        );
-      });
-  });
-
   gulp.task('docs.sass-variables', function() {
     var fs = require('fs');
     var gutil = require('gulp-util');