diff --git a/lib/searchprovider.php b/lib/searchprovider.php
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--- a/lib/searchprovider.php
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-<?php
-/**
- * @author Thomas Tanghus
- * @copyright 2013-2014 Thomas Tanghus (thomas@tanghus.net)
- *
- * This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or
- * later.
- * See the COPYING-README file.
- */
-
-namespace OCA\Contacts;
-
-class SearchProvider extends \OC_Search_Provider{
-	public function search($query) {
-		$unescape = function($value) {
-			return strtr($value, array('\,' => ',', '\;' => ';'));
-		};
-
-		$searchresults = array();
-		$results = \OCP\Contacts::search($query, array('N', 'FN', 'EMAIL', 'NICKNAME', 'ORG'));
-		$l = new \OC_l10n('contacts');
-		foreach($results as $result) {
-			$link = \OCP\Util::linkToRoute('contacts_index').'#' . $result['id'];
-			$props = array();
-			$display = (isset($result['FN']) && $result['FN']) ? $result['FN'] : null;
-			foreach(array('EMAIL', 'NICKNAME', 'ORG') as $searchvar) {
-				if(isset($result[$searchvar]) && $result[$searchvar]) {
-					if(is_array($result[$searchvar])) {
-						$result[$searchvar] = array_filter($result[$searchvar]);
-					}
-					$prop = is_array($result[$searchvar]) ? implode(',', $result[$searchvar]) : $result[$searchvar];
-					$props[] = $prop;
-					$display = $display ?: $result[$searchvar];
-				}
-			}
-			$props = array_map($unescape, $props);
-			$searchresults[]=new \OC_Search_Result($display, implode(', ', $props), $link, (string)$l->t('Contact'), null);//$name,$text,$link,$type
-		}
-		return $searchresults;
-	}
-}