diff --git src/plugin/parse-metatags/src/java/org/apache/nutch/parse/metatags/MetaTagsParser.java src/plugin/parse-metatags/src/java/org/apache/nutch/parse/metatags/MetaTagsParser.java
index f9b9722..41f4c7c 100644
--- src/plugin/parse-metatags/src/java/org/apache/nutch/parse/metatags/MetaTagsParser.java
+++ src/plugin/parse-metatags/src/java/org/apache/nutch/parse/metatags/MetaTagsParser.java
@@ -99,12 +99,6 @@ public class MetaTagsParser implements HtmlParseFilter {
     Parse parse = parseResult.get(content.getUrl());
     Metadata metadata = parse.getData().getParseMeta();
 
-    // check in the metadata first : the tika-parser
-    // might have stored the values there already
-    for (String mdName : metadata.names()) {
-      addIndexedMetatags(metadata, mdName, metadata.getValues(mdName));
-    }
-
     Metadata generalMetaTags = metaTags.getGeneralTags();
     for (String tagName : generalMetaTags.names()) {
       addIndexedMetatags(metadata, tagName, generalMetaTags.getValues(tagName));