diff --git a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/PagedSearchController.java b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/PagedSearchController.java
index 9596ed4838..94d282577b 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/PagedSearchController.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/controller/PagedSearchController.java
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.controller;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.time.LocalDateTime;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
@@ -124,7 +126,10 @@ public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) thro
 
                 response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
                 response.setContentType("text/csv;charset=UTF-8");
-                response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=search.csv");
+                String date = LocalDateTime.now().format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd-HHmmss"));
+                String applicationName = vreq.getAppBean().getApplicationName();
+                String fileName = date + "_" + applicationName + "_searchterm.csv";
+                response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName);
                 writeTemplate(rvalues.getTemplateName(), rvalues.getMap(), request, response);
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 log.error(e, e);
diff --git a/webapp/src/main/webapp/templates/freemarker/body/search/search-csvResults.ftl b/webapp/src/main/webapp/templates/freemarker/body/search/search-csvResults.ftl
index 6bcc3173b8..2d1b977909 100644
--- a/webapp/src/main/webapp/templates/freemarker/body/search/search-csvResults.ftl
+++ b/webapp/src/main/webapp/templates/freemarker/body/search/search-csvResults.ftl
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 <#-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in LICENSE$ -->
-<#assign today = .now >
-<#assign todayDate = today?date>
-Results from ${siteName} for ${querytext} on ${todayDate}
-
 Name, URI, URL
 <#list individuals as individual>
 "${individual.name}","${individual.uri}","${individual.profileUrl}"