diff --git a/searx/templates/base.html b/searx/templates/base.html
index b1b051fad..58a278a29 100644
--- a/searx/templates/base.html
+++ b/searx/templates/base.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />
     <meta name="description" content="" />
     <meta name="keywords" content="" />
+    <link title="searx" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="search" href="/opensearch.xml"/>
     <title>searx {% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
     {% block styles %}
diff --git a/searx/webapp.py b/searx/webapp.py
index 38084714a..afd7d19ca 100644
--- a/searx/webapp.py
+++ b/searx/webapp.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     from os.path import realpath, dirname
     path.append(realpath(dirname(realpath(__file__))+'/../'))
 
-from flask import Flask, request, flash, render_template
+from flask import Flask, request, flash, render_template, url_for, Response
 import ConfigParser
 from os import getenv
 from searx.engines import search, engines
@@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ cfg.read('searx.conf')
 app = Flask(__name__)
 app.secret_key = cfg.get('app', 'secret_key')
 
+opensearch_xml = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
+  <ShortName>searx</ShortName>
+  <Description>Search searx</Description>
+  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
+  <LongName>searx meta search engine</LongName>
+  <Url type="text/html" method="post" template="{host}">
+    <Param name="q" value="{{searchTerms}}" />
+  </Url>
+</OpenSearchDescription>
+'''
+
 def render(template_name, **kwargs):
     kwargs['engines'] = engines.keys()
     return render_template(template_name, **kwargs)
@@ -58,6 +70,19 @@ def index():
         return render('results.html', results=results, q=query.decode('utf-8'))
     return render('index.html')
 
+@app.route('/favicon.ico', methods=['GET'])
+def fav():
+    return ''
+
+@app.route('/opensearch.xml', methods=['GET'])
+def opensearch():
+    global opensearch_xml
+    ret = opensearch_xml.format(host=url_for('index', _external=True))
+    resp = Response(response=ret,
+                status=200,
+                mimetype="application/xml")
+    return resp
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     from gevent import monkey
     monkey.patch_all()