diff --git a/htroot/yacysearch.html b/htroot/yacysearch.html
index 31ad6d0ae..ec0949e72 100644
--- a/htroot/yacysearch.html
+++ b/htroot/yacysearch.html
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Use the RSS search result format to add static searches to your RSS reader, if y
   <div class="row">
     <div class="col-sm-8 col-sm-offset-4 col-md-9 col-md-offset-3 main">
 
-<form class="search small" name="searchform" action="" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" style="position:fixed;top:8px;z-index:1052;max-width:500px;">
+<form class="search small" name="searchform" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" style="position:fixed;top:8px;z-index:1052;max-width:500px;">
 
   <div class="input-group">
     <input name="query" id="search" type="text" class="form-control searchinput typeahead" size="40" maxlength="200" placeholder="#[promoteSearchPageGreeting]#" value="#[former]#" #(focus)#::autofocus="autofocus"#(/focus)# onFocus="this.select()" onclick="document.getElementById('Enter').innerHTML = 'search'"/>