diff --git a/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts b/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts
index 32e7f5dd3a1..3f24fd9f86a 100644
--- a/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts
+++ b/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts
@@ -1,22 +1,4 @@
 export function cleanSearchTerm(searchTerm: string) {
-  const lowercase = searchTerm.toLowerCase();
-  const withoutSpecialCharacters = lowercase.replace(/([!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~])/g, ' ');
-  const whiteSpaceNormalized = withoutSpecialCharacters.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
-  const byToken = whiteSpaceNormalized.split(' ');
-  // be aware that a user typing Note To Self will have an issue when the `not` part of it is typed as the not word is reserved
-  const withoutSpecialTokens = byToken.filter(
-    token =>
-      token &&
-      token !== 'and' &&
-      token !== 'or' &&
-      token !== 'not' &&
-      token !== ')' &&
-      token !== '(' &&
-      token !== '+' &&
-      token !== ',' &&
-      token !== 'near'
-  );
-  const withWildcards = withoutSpecialTokens.map(token => `${token}*`);
-
-  return withWildcards.join(' ').trim();
+  const whiteSpaceNormalized = searchTerm.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
+  return whiteSpaceNormalized.trim();
 }