diff --git a/packages/docsearch-react/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts b/packages/docsearch-react/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts
index abfdd7fb..b0324a37 100644
--- a/packages/docsearch-react/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docsearch-react/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,30 @@ describe('utils', () => {
       const text = 'Check https://algolia.com, https://algolia.com!';
       expect(extractLinksFromText(text)).toEqual([{ url: 'https://algolia.com' }]);
     });
+
+    it('does not return links from within code snippets', () => {
+      const text = `
+See [Example Docs](https://example.com/docs)
+
+This is also ignored \`https://ignored.com\`
+
+\`\`\`js
+  const DOCS_LINK = 'https://algolia.com/doc'
+\`\`\`
+
+https://docsearch.algolia.com
+
+https://docsearch.algolia.com/configuration?version=beta
+`;
+
+      const output = extractLinksFromText(text);
+
+      expect(output).toEqual([
+        { url: 'https://example.com/docs', title: 'Example Docs' },
+        { url: 'https://docsearch.algolia.com' },
+        { url: 'https://docsearch.algolia.com/configuration?version=beta' },
+      ]);
+    });
   });
 
   describe('createObjectStorage', () => {
diff --git a/packages/docsearch-react/src/utils/ai.ts b/packages/docsearch-react/src/utils/ai.ts
index f7b05e63..a3cbadc8 100644
--- a/packages/docsearch-react/src/utils/ai.ts
+++ b/packages/docsearch-react/src/utils/ai.ts
@@ -2,34 +2,49 @@ import type { Message } from '@ai-sdk/react';
 
 import type { StoredAskAiState } from '../types';
 
+type ExtractedLink = {
+  url: string;
+  title?: string;
+};
+
 // utility to extract links (markdown and bare urls) from a string
-export function extractLinksFromText(text: string): Array<{ url: string; title?: string }> {
-  // match [title](url) and bare urls
-  const markdownLinkRegex = /\[([^\]]+)\]\((https?:\/\/[^\s)]+)\)/g;
-  const urlRegex = /https?:\/\/[^\s)]+/g;
-  const links: Array<{ url: string; title?: string }> = [];
+export function extractLinksFromText(text: string): ExtractedLink[] {
+  const markdownLinkRegex = /\[([^\]]*)\]\(([^)]+)\)/g;
+  const plainLinkRegex = /(?<!\]\()https?:\/\/[^\s<>"{}|\\^`[\]]+/g;
+  const links: ExtractedLink[] = [];
+  // Used to dedupe multiple urls
   const seen = new Set<string>();
 
-  // extract markdown links first
-  let match;
-  while ((match = markdownLinkRegex.exec(text)) !== null) {
-    let url = match[2];
-    const title = match[1];
-    // trim trailing punctuation
-    url = url.replace(/[).,;!?]+$/, '');
+  // Strip out all code blocks e.g. ```
+  const textWithoutCodeBlocks = text.replace(/```[\s\S]*?```/g, '');
+
+  // Strip out all inline code blocks e.g. `
+  const cleanText = textWithoutCodeBlocks.replace(/`[^`]*`/g, '');
+
+  // Get all markdown based links e.g. []()
+  const markdownMatches = cleanText.matchAll(markdownLinkRegex);
+
+  // Parses the title and url from the found links
+  for (const match of markdownMatches) {
+    const title = match[1].trim();
+    const url = match[2];
+
     if (!seen.has(url)) {
-      links.push({ url, title });
       seen.add(url);
+      links.push({ url, title: title || undefined });
     }
   }
 
-  // extract bare urls
-  while ((match = urlRegex.exec(text)) !== null) {
-    let url = match[0];
-    url = url.replace(/[).,;!?]+$/, '');
-    if (!seen.has(url)) {
-      links.push({ url });
-      seen.add(url);
+  // Get all "plain" links e.g. https://algolia.com/doc
+  const plainUrls = cleanText.matchAll(plainLinkRegex);
+
+  for (const match of plainUrls) {
+    // Strip any extra punctuation
+    const cleanUrl = match[0].replace(/[.,;:!?]+$/, '');
+
+    if (!seen.has(cleanUrl)) {
+      seen.add(cleanUrl);
+      links.push({ url: cleanUrl });
     }
   }