diff --git a/src/resources/projects/website/search/quarto-search.js b/src/resources/projects/website/search/quarto-search.js
index d788a958127..923beab3cc4 100644
--- a/src/resources/projects/website/search/quarto-search.js
+++ b/src/resources/projects/website/search/quarto-search.js
@@ -63,18 +63,6 @@ window.document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function (_event) {
     }
   };
 
-  // Clear search highlighting when the user scrolls sufficiently
-  const resetFn = () => {
-    resetHighlighting("");
-    window.removeEventListener("quarto-hrChanged", resetFn);
-    window.removeEventListener("quarto-sectionChanged", resetFn);
-  };
-
-  // Register this event after the initial scrolling and settling of events
-  // on the page
-  window.addEventListener("quarto-hrChanged", resetFn);
-  window.addEventListener("quarto-sectionChanged", resetFn);
-
   // Responsively switch to overlay mode if the search is present on the navbar
   // Note that switching the sidebar to overlay mode requires more coordinate (not just
   // the media query since we generate different HTML for sidebar overlays than we do