diff --git a/catalog/core/catalog-core-api-impl/src/main/java/ddf/catalog/data/impl/types/CoreAttributes.java b/catalog/core/catalog-core-api-impl/src/main/java/ddf/catalog/data/impl/types/CoreAttributes.java
index c55d10604cf..6383b3a60fc 100644
--- a/catalog/core/catalog-core-api-impl/src/main/java/ddf/catalog/data/impl/types/CoreAttributes.java
+++ b/catalog/core/catalog-core-api-impl/src/main/java/ddf/catalog/data/impl/types/CoreAttributes.java
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ public class CoreAttributes implements Core, MetacardType {
     descriptors.add(
         new AttributeDescriptorImpl(
             METADATA,
-            true /* indexed */,
+            false /* indexed */,
             true /* stored */,
             true /* tokenized */,
             false /* multivalued */,