diff --git a/deno.json b/deno.json
index dabb1ac9..18a6621c 100644
--- a/deno.json
+++ b/deno.json
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     "@isaacs/ttlcache": "npm:@isaacs/ttlcache@^1.4.1",
     "@negrel/webpush": "jsr:@negrel/webpush@^0.3.0",
     "@noble/secp256k1": "npm:@noble/secp256k1@^2.0.0",
-    "@nostrify/db": "jsr:@nostrify/db@^0.38.0",
+    "@nostrify/db": "jsr:@nostrify/db@^0.39.0",
     "@nostrify/nostrify": "jsr:@nostrify/nostrify@^0.38.1",
     "@nostrify/policies": "jsr:@nostrify/policies@^0.36.1",
     "@nostrify/types": "jsr:@nostrify/types@^0.36.0",
diff --git a/src/controllers/api/search.ts b/src/controllers/api/search.ts
index 8bfe4ffd..c0a4a54e 100644
--- a/src/controllers/api/search.ts
+++ b/src/controllers/api/search.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { nip05Cache } from '@/utils/nip05.ts';
 import { accountFromPubkey, renderAccount } from '@/views/mastodon/accounts.ts';
 import { renderStatus } from '@/views/mastodon/statuses.ts';
 import { getFollowedPubkeys } from '@/queries.ts';
-import { getIdsBySearch, getPubkeysBySearch } from '@/utils/search.ts';
+import { getPubkeysBySearch } from '@/utils/search.ts';
 
 const searchQuerySchema = z.object({
   q: z.string().transform(decodeURIComponent),
@@ -105,13 +105,6 @@ async function searchEvents(
     filter.search = undefined;
   }
 
-  // For status search, use a specific query so it supports offset and is open to customizations.
-  if (type === 'statuses') {
-    const ids = await getIdsBySearch(kysely, { q, limit, offset });
-    filter.ids = [...ids];
-    filter.search = undefined;
-  }
-
   // Results should only be shown from one author.
   if (account_id) {
     filter.authors = [account_id];
diff --git a/src/utils/search.test.ts b/src/utils/search.test.ts
index 71f96de2..056c2927 100644
--- a/src/utils/search.test.ts
+++ b/src/utils/search.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { assertEquals } from '@std/assert';
 
-import { createTestDB, genEvent } from '@/test.ts';
-import { getIdsBySearch, getPubkeysBySearch } from '@/utils/search.ts';
+import { createTestDB } from '@/test.ts';
+import { getPubkeysBySearch } from '@/utils/search.ts';
 
 Deno.test('fuzzy search works', async () => {
   await using db = await createTestDB();
@@ -48,47 +48,3 @@ Deno.test('fuzzy search works with offset', async () => {
     new Set(),
   );
 });
-
-Deno.test('Searching for posts work', async () => {
-  await using db = await createTestDB();
-
-  const event = genEvent({ content: "I'm not an orphan. Death is my importance", kind: 1 });
-  await db.store.event(event);
-  await db.kysely.updateTable('nostr_events').set('search_ext', { language: 'en' }).where('id', '=', event.id)
-    .execute();
-
-  const event2 = genEvent({ content: 'The more I explore is the more I fall in love with the music I make.', kind: 1 });
-  await db.store.event(event2);
-  await db.kysely.updateTable('nostr_events').set('search_ext', { language: 'en' }).where('id', '=', event2.id)
-    .execute();
-
-  assertEquals(
-    await getIdsBySearch(db.kysely, { q: 'Death is my importance', limit: 1, offset: 0 }), // ordered words
-    new Set([event.id]),
-  );
-
-  assertEquals(
-    await getIdsBySearch(db.kysely, { q: 'make I music', limit: 1, offset: 0 }), // reversed words
-    new Set([event2.id]),
-  );
-
-  assertEquals(
-    await getIdsBySearch(db.kysely, { q: 'language:en make I music', limit: 10, offset: 0 }), // reversed words, english
-    new Set([event2.id]),
-  );
-
-  assertEquals(
-    await getIdsBySearch(db.kysely, { q: 'language:en an orphan', limit: 10, offset: 0 }), // all posts in english plus search
-    new Set([event.id]),
-  );
-
-  assertEquals(
-    await getIdsBySearch(db.kysely, { q: 'language:en', limit: 10, offset: 0 }), // all posts in english
-    new Set([event.id, event2.id]),
-  );
-
-  assertEquals(
-    await getIdsBySearch(db.kysely, { q: '', limit: 10, offset: 0 }),
-    new Set(),
-  );
-});
diff --git a/src/utils/search.ts b/src/utils/search.ts
index f44e00c8..29ecefd9 100644
--- a/src/utils/search.ts
+++ b/src/utils/search.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { Kysely, sql } from 'kysely';
 
 import { DittoTables } from '@/db/DittoTables.ts';
-import { NIP50 } from '@nostrify/nostrify';
 
 /** Get pubkeys whose name and NIP-05 is similar to 'q' */
 export async function getPubkeysBySearch(
@@ -33,109 +32,3 @@ export async function getPubkeysBySearch(
 
   return new Set(Array.from(followingPubkeys.union(pubkeys)));
 }
-
-/**
- * Get kind 1 ids whose content matches `q`.
- * It supports NIP-50 extensions.
- */
-export async function getIdsBySearch(
-  kysely: Kysely<DittoTables>,
-  opts: { q: string; limit: number; offset: number },
-): Promise<Set<string>> {
-  const { q, limit, offset } = opts;
-
-  const [lexemes] = (await sql<{ phraseto_tsquery: 'string' }>`SELECT phraseto_tsquery(${q})`.execute(kysely)).rows;
-
-  // if it's just stop words, don't bother making a request to the database
-  if (!lexemes.phraseto_tsquery) {
-    return new Set();
-  }
-
-  const tokens = NIP50.parseInput(q);
-
-  const ext: Record<string, string[]> = {};
-  const txt = tokens.filter((token) => typeof token === 'string').join(' ');
-
-  let query = kysely
-    .selectFrom('nostr_events')
-    .select('id')
-    .where('kind', '=', 1)
-    .orderBy(['created_at desc'])
-    .limit(limit)
-    .offset(offset);
-
-  const domains = new Set<string>();
-
-  for (const token of tokens) {
-    if (typeof token === 'object' && token.key === 'domain') {
-      domains.add(token.value);
-    }
-  }
-
-  for (const token of tokens) {
-    if (typeof token === 'object') {
-      ext[token.key] ??= [];
-      ext[token.key].push(token.value);
-    }
-  }
-
-  for (let [key, values] of Object.entries(ext)) {
-    if (key === 'domain' || key === '-domain') continue;
-
-    let negated = false;
-
-    if (key.startsWith('-')) {
-      key = key.slice(1);
-      negated = true;
-    }
-
-    query = query.where((eb) => {
-      if (negated) {
-        return eb.and(
-          values.map((value) => eb.not(eb('nostr_events.search_ext', '@>', { [key]: value }))),
-        );
-      } else {
-        return eb.or(
-          values.map((value) => eb('nostr_events.search_ext', '@>', { [key]: value })),
-        );
-      }
-    });
-  }
-
-  if (domains.size) {
-    const pubkeys = (await kysely
-      .selectFrom('pubkey_domains')
-      .select('pubkey')
-      .where('domain', 'in', [...domains])
-      .execute()).map(({ pubkey }) => pubkey);
-
-    query = query.where('pubkey', 'in', pubkeys);
-  }
-
-  // If there is not a specific content to search, return the query already
-  // This is useful if the person only makes a query search such as `domain:patrickdosreis.com`
-  if (!txt.length) {
-    const ids = new Set((await query.execute()).map(({ id }) => id));
-    return ids;
-  }
-
-  let fallbackQuery = query;
-  if (txt) {
-    query = query.where('search', '@@', sql`phraseto_tsquery(${txt})`);
-  }
-
-  const ids = new Set((await query.execute()).map(({ id }) => id));
-
-  // If there is no ids, fallback to `plainto_tsquery`
-  if (!ids.size) {
-    fallbackQuery = fallbackQuery.where(
-      'search',
-      '@@',
-      sql`plainto_tsquery(${txt})`,
-    );
-    const ids = new Set((await fallbackQuery.execute()).map(({ id }) => id));
-    return ids;
-  }
-
-  return ids;
-}