diff --git a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/CustomSearchController.java b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/CustomSearchController.java
index 0575746ec..2de8bb6ae 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/CustomSearchController.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/CustomSearchController.java
@@ -10,10 +10,8 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
-import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Set;
 
 import javax.servlet.ServletException;
 import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
@@ -41,7 +39,6 @@ import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VClassDao;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VClassGroupDao;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VClassGroupsForRequest;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VitroVocabulary;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.jena.QueryUtils;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.jena.VClassGroupCache;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.i18n.I18n;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.modules.searchEngine.SearchEngine;
@@ -56,9 +53,6 @@ import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.templatemodels.LinkTemplateModel;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.templatemodels.searchresult.IndividualSearchResult;
 import edu.ucsf.vitro.opensocial.OpenSocialManager;
 
-import org.apache.jena.query.QuerySolution;
-import org.apache.jena.query.ResultSet;
-import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Literal;
 /**
  * Paged search controller that uses the search engine
  */
@@ -80,18 +74,6 @@ public class CustomSearchController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
     private static final String PARAM_RDFTYPE = "type";
     private static final String PARAM_QUERY_TEXT = "querytext";
 
-  	private static String FILTERS_QUERY = ""
-        + "PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>"
-        +	"PREFIX rdfs:     <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>" 
-        + "PREFIX search:   <https://dideside.com/searchOntology#>" 
-        + "SELECT ?filterID ?fieldField ?filterLabel"
-        + "WHERE"
-        + "{ ?filterStatement rdf:type search:filter ."
-        +	"	 ?filterStatement search:field ?fieldField ."
-        +	"	 ?filterStatement search:id ?filterID ."
-        +	"	 ?filterStatement rdfs:label ?filterLabel ."
-        +	"} ORDER BY ?fileterLabel";
-
     protected static final Map<Format,Map<Result,String>> templateTable;
 
     protected enum Format {
@@ -217,10 +199,6 @@ public class CustomSearchController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
             for (SearchResultDocument doc : docs) {
                 try {
                     String uri = doc.getStringValue(VitroSearchTermNames.URI);
-										/*
-										 * if(possibleExcerpts.contains(uri)) { log.info("FOUND AVAILIBLE URI " + uri);
-										 * }
-										 */
                     Individual ind = iDao.getIndividualByURI(uri);
                     if (ind != null) {
                         ind.setSearchSnippet(getSnippet(doc, response));
@@ -336,26 +314,6 @@ public class CustomSearchController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
         }
     }
     
-    private Set<String> getExistingExcerpts( VitroRequest vreq) {
-      Set<String> labels = new HashSet<String>();
-      try {
-      	//We want to get the labels for all the languages, not just the display language
-          ResultSet results = QueryUtils.getLanguageNeutralQueryResults(FILTERS_QUERY, vreq);
-          while (results.hasNext()) {
-              QuerySolution solution = results.nextSolution();
-              String nodeLiteral = solution.get("individualUri").toString();
-              log.debug(nodeLiteral.toString());
-              labels.add(nodeLiteral);
-          }
-      } catch (Exception e) {
-          log.error(e, e);
-      }
-     return labels;
-}
-
-
-    
-    
     private int getHitsPerPage(VitroRequest vreq) {
         int hitsPerPage = DEFAULT_HITS_PER_PAGE;
         try{