diff --git a/_includes/search_page.html b/_includes/search_page.html
index 1684d270ea3..49a20db6a00 100644
--- a/_includes/search_page.html
+++ b/_includes/search_page.html
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ <h1 style="padding-top:40px;color: #212123;">Advanced Search </h1>
 
       if ('content' in hit._highlightResult) {
         if ('value' in hit._highlightResult.content) {
-          content = hit._highlightResult.content.value;
+          content = hit._highlightResult.content.value.replace(/<(.|\n)*?>/g, '');
         }
       }
 
diff --git a/_plugins/algolia_hooks.rb b/_plugins/algolia_hooks.rb
index a1012f4401b..20fa84e2b39 100644
--- a/_plugins/algolia_hooks.rb
+++ b/_plugins/algolia_hooks.rb
@@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ def self.before_indexing_each(record, node, context)
           if record[:html]
             html = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(record[:html])
             html.search('.lineno').remove
-            html = html.text.gsub(/\s+/,' ')[0 ... 4400]
+            html = html.text.gsub(/\s+/,' ').gsub(/[\u0080-\u00ff]/,'')[0 ... 4400]
             record[:html] = html
           end
           if record[:content]
-            record[:content].gsub!(/^\d+\n/,'')
-            record[:content] = record[:content][0 ... 4400]
+            record[:content] = record[:content].gsub(/^\d+\n/,'').gsub(/[\u0080-\u00ff]/,'')[0 ... 4400]
           end
           # fix glossary generating algolia record that's too big
           if record[:glossaries]
diff --git a/assets/js/documents.js b/assets/js/documents.js
index 12722902b06..4cf9c4e6ee7 100644
--- a/assets/js/documents.js
+++ b/assets/js/documents.js
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 
           if ('content' in suggestion._highlightResult){
             if ('value' in suggestion._highlightResult.content){
-              content = suggestion._highlightResult.content.value.replace('%20', ' ').replace('_', ' ');
+              content = suggestion._highlightResult.content.value.replace('%20', ' ').replace('_', ' ').replace(/<(.|\n)*?>/g, '');
             }
           }
           if (content.length > 400) {