diff --git a/Composite/Search/Crawling/XhtmlCrawlingHelper.cs b/Composite/Search/Crawling/XhtmlCrawlingHelper.cs
index cc9d9fc778..c0094d25d4 100644
--- a/Composite/Search/Crawling/XhtmlCrawlingHelper.cs
+++ b/Composite/Search/Crawling/XhtmlCrawlingHelper.cs
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ private void ProcessElement(XElement element)
                 return;
             }
 
+            if (element.Name.LocalName == "script" || element.Name.LocalName == "noscript")
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+
             if (element.Name.LocalName == "a")
             {
                 // TODO: process "href" attribute for page/data references