diff --git a/searx/engines/google.py b/searx/engines/google.py
index 36ca7a116..03f0523e7 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google.py
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ def request(query, params):
     params['headers']['Accept-Language'] = language + ',' + language + '-' + country
     params['headers']['Accept'] = 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
 
+    # Force Internet Explorer 12 user agent to avoid loading the new UI that Searx can't parse
+    params['headers']['User-Agent'] = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)"
+
     params['google_hostname'] = google_hostname
 
     return params