diff --git a/ckan/lib/search/index.py b/ckan/lib/search/index.py
index cd4ac1059e2..87b5606fa38 100644
--- a/ckan/lib/search/index.py
+++ b/ckan/lib/search/index.py
@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ def index_package(self, pkg_dict, defer_commit=False):
 
         pkg_dict[TYPE_FIELD] = PACKAGE_TYPE
 
+        # Save dataset type
+        pkg_dict['dataset_type'] = pkg_dict['type']
+
         pkg_dict = dict([(k.encode('ascii', 'ignore'), v) for (k, v) in pkg_dict.items()])
 
         for k in ('title', 'notes', 'title_string'):