diff --git a/lib/tasks/search.rake b/lib/tasks/search.rake
index 79b940cf1a75c56349ae5f1590ab519f94bdd12c..6a49831c8d541bd60f02c1a44514a7c82c93e588 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/search.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/search.rake
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ namespace :search do
   task :init do
     puts 'Creating search data json file...'
     touch 'search-data.json'
-    content = %Q[{{ page.content | markdownify | strip_html | xml_escape | remove: 'Table of contents' | remove: page.title | strip_newlines | replace: '\', ' ' }}]
+    content = %Q[{{ page.content | markdownify | strip_html | xml_escape | remove: 'Table of contents' | remove: page.title | strip_newlines | replace: '\\', ' ' }}]
 
     File.open('search-data.json', 'w') do |f|
       f.puts '---