diff --git a/docs/reference/redirects.asciidoc b/docs/reference/redirects.asciidoc
index e3a66d135e7..127eef879a4 100644
--- a/docs/reference/redirects.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/redirects.asciidoc
@@ -723,6 +723,11 @@ See <<ilm-actions>>.
 
 See <<ilm-index-lifecycle>>.
 
+[role="exclude",id="search-uri-request"]
+=== URI Search
+
+See <<search-search>>.
+
 [role="exclude",id="modules-gateway-dangling-indices"]
 === Dangling indices
 
diff --git a/docs/reference/search.asciidoc b/docs/reference/search.asciidoc
index 411b21d9317..8568f8df296 100644
--- a/docs/reference/search.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/search.asciidoc
@@ -152,8 +152,6 @@ high). This default value is `5`.
 
 include::search/search.asciidoc[]
 
-include::search/uri-request.asciidoc[]
-
 include::search/request-body.asciidoc[]
 
 include::search/async-search.asciidoc[]
diff --git a/docs/reference/search/uri-request.asciidoc b/docs/reference/search/uri-request.asciidoc
deleted file mode 100644
index 16f6939e9bf..00000000000
--- a/docs/reference/search/uri-request.asciidoc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-[[search-uri-request]]
-=== URI Search
-
-Specifies search criteria as query parameters in the request URI.
-
-[source,console]
---------------------------------------------------
-GET twitter/_search?q=user:kimchy
---------------------------------------------------
-// TEST[setup:twitter]
-
-
-[[search-uri-request-api-request]]
-==== {api-request-title}
-
-`GET /<index>/_search?q=<parameter>`
-
-
-[[search-uri-request-api-desc]]
-==== {api-description-title}
-
-You can use query parameters to define your search criteria directly in the 
-request URI, rather than in the request body. Request URI searches do not 
-support the full {es} Query DSL, but are handy for testing.
-
-
-[[search-uri-request-api-path-params]]
-==== {api-path-parms-title}
-
-include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=index]
-
-
-[[search-uri-request-api-query-params]]
-==== {api-query-parms-title}
-
-See the <<search-search-api-query-params,search API's query parameters>>.
-
-
-[[search-uri-request-api-example]]
-==== {api-examples-title}
-
-[source,console]
---------------------------------------------------
-GET twitter/_search?q=user:kimchy
---------------------------------------------------
-// TEST[setup:twitter]
-
-
-The API returns the following response:
-
-[source,console-result]
---------------------------------------------------
-{
-    "timed_out": false,
-    "took": 62,
-    "_shards":{
-        "total" : 1,
-        "successful" : 1,
-        "skipped" : 0,
-        "failed" : 0
-    },
-    "hits":{
-        "total" : {
-            "value": 1,
-            "relation": "eq"
-        },
-        "max_score": 1.3862942,
-        "hits" : [
-            {
-                "_index" : "twitter",
-                "_type" : "_doc",
-                "_id" : "0",
-                "_score": 1.3862942,
-                "_source" : {
-                    "user" : "kimchy",
-                    "date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
-                    "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch",
-                    "likes": 0
-                }
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-}
---------------------------------------------------
-// TESTRESPONSE[s/"took": 62/"took": "$body.took"/]