diff --git a/src/content/htmlutil/utils.go b/src/content/htmlutil/utils.go
index 3e475f8..5f66ae8 100644
--- a/src/content/htmlutil/utils.go
+++ b/src/content/htmlutil/utils.go
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@ package htmlutil
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
 	"golang.org/x/net/html"
 )
 
+var whitespaceRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`[\s]+`)
+
 func HTML(node *html.Node) string {
 	writer := strings.Builder{}
 	html.Render(&writer, node)
@@ -53,5 +56,8 @@ func ExtractText(content string) string {
 			buffer.WriteString(html.UnescapeString(string(tokenizer.Text())))
 		}
 	}
-	return buffer.String()
+	text := buffer.String()
+	text = strings.TrimSpace(text)
+	text = whitespaceRegex.ReplaceAllLiteralString(text, " ")
+	return text
 }
diff --git a/src/content/htmlutil/utils_test.go b/src/content/htmlutil/utils_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ab6251
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/content/htmlutil/utils_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package htmlutil
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestExtractText(t *testing.T) {
+	testcases := [][2]string {
+		{"hello", "<div>hello</div>"},
+		{"hello world", "<div>hello</div> world"},
+		{"helloworld", "<div>hello</div>world"},
+		{"hello world", "hello <div>world</div>"},
+		{"helloworld", "hello<div>world</div>"},
+		{"hello world!", "hello <div>world</div>!"},
+		{"hello world !", "hello <div>   world\r\n </div>!"},
+	}
+	for _, testcase := range testcases {
+		want := testcase[0]
+		base := testcase[1]
+		have := ExtractText(base)
+		if want != have {
+			t.Logf("base: %#v\n", base)
+			t.Logf("want: %#v\n", want)
+			t.Logf("have: %#v\n", have)
+			t.Fail()
+		}
+	}
+}