diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
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--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -151,3 +151,4 @@ locales:
     hu : Magyar
     fr : Français
     es : Español
+    it : Italiano
diff --git a/searx/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo b/searx/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
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diff --git a/searx/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po b/searx/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
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index 000000000..72095c08f
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+++ b/searx/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+# English translations for PROJECT.
+# Copyright (C) 2014 ORGANIZATION
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PROJECT project.
+# 
+# Translators:
+# dp <d.pitrolo@gmx.com>, 2014
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: searx\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2014-03-04 20:54+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2014-03-05 13:30+0000\n"
+"Last-Translator: dp <d.pitrolo@gmx.com>\n"
+"Language-Team: Italian (http://www.transifex.com/projects/p/searx/language/it/)\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: Babel 1.3\n"
+"Language: it\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
+
+#: searx/engines/__init__.py:308
+msgid "Page loads (sec)"
+msgstr " Caricamento della pagina (secondi)"
+
+#: searx/engines/__init__.py:312
+msgid "Number of results"
+msgstr "Risultati ottenuti"
+
+#: searx/engines/__init__.py:316
+msgid "Scores"
+msgstr "Punteggio"
+
+#: searx/engines/__init__.py:320
+msgid "Scores per result"
+msgstr "Punteggio per risultato"
+
+#: searx/engines/__init__.py:324
+msgid "Errors"
+msgstr "Errori"
+
+#: searx/templates/index.html:7
+msgid "about"
+msgstr "informazioni"
+
+#: searx/templates/index.html:8
+msgid "preferences"
+msgstr "preferenze"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:5
+msgid "Preferences"
+msgstr "Preferenze"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:9
+msgid "Default categories"
+msgstr "Categorie predefinite"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:15
+msgid "Search language"
+msgstr "Lingua di ricerca"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:18
+msgid "Automatic"
+msgstr "Automatico"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:26
+msgid "Interface language"
+msgstr "Linguaggio dell'interfaccia"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:36
+msgid "Currently used search engines"
+msgstr "Motori di ricerca attualmente in uso"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:40
+msgid "Engine name"
+msgstr "Nome del motore"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:41
+msgid "Category"
+msgstr "Categoria"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:42 searx/templates/preferences.html:53
+msgid "Allow"
+msgstr "Autorizza"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:42 searx/templates/preferences.html:54
+msgid "Block"
+msgstr "Blocca"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:62
+msgid ""
+"These settings are stored in your cookies, this allows us not to store this "
+"data about you."
+msgstr "Queste impostazioni sono salvate nei tuoi cookie, consentendoci di non conservare dati su di te."
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:64
+msgid ""
+"These cookies serve your sole convenience, we don't use these cookies to "
+"track you."
+msgstr "I cookie sono funzionali ad un servizio migliore. Non usiamo i cookie per sorvegliarti."
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:67
+msgid "save"
+msgstr "salva"
+
+#: searx/templates/preferences.html:69
+msgid "back"
+msgstr "indietro"
+
+#: searx/templates/results.html:11
+msgid "Suggestions"
+msgstr "Suggerimenti"
+
+#: searx/templates/results.html:22
+msgid "Search URL"
+msgstr "URL della ricerca"
+
+#: searx/templates/results.html:26
+msgid "Download results"
+msgstr "Scarica i risultati"
+
+#: searx/templates/results.html:62
+msgid "previous page"
+msgstr "pagina precedente"
+
+#: searx/templates/results.html:73
+msgid "next page"
+msgstr "pagina successiva"
+
+#: searx/templates/stats.html:4
+msgid "Engine stats"
+msgstr "Statistiche dei motori"
+
+# categories - manually added
+# TODO - automatically add
+msgid "files"
+msgstr "documenti"
+
+msgid "general"
+msgstr "generale"
+
+msgid "music"
+msgstr "musica"
+
+msgid "social media"
+msgstr "social media"
+
+msgid "images"
+msgstr "immagini"
+
+msgid "videos"
+msgstr "video"
+
+msgid "it"
+msgstr "it"
+
+msgid "news"
+msgstr "notizie"