diff --git a/searx/engines/faroo.py b/searx/engines/faroo.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a36ecf778..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/faroo.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-"""
- Faroo (Web, News)
-
- @website     http://www.faroo.com
- @provide-api yes (http://www.faroo.com/hp/api/api.html), require API-key
-
- @using-api   no
- @results     JSON
- @stable      yes
- @parse       url, title, content, publishedDate, img_src
-"""
-
-from json import loads
-import datetime
-from searx.utils import searx_useragent
-from searx.url_utils import urlencode
-
-# engine dependent config
-categories = ['general', 'news']
-paging = True
-language_support = True
-number_of_results = 10
-
-# search-url
-url = 'http://www.faroo.com/'
-search_url = url + 'instant.json?{query}'\
-    '&start={offset}'\
-    '&length={number_of_results}'\
-    '&l={language}'\
-    '&src={categorie}'\
-    '&i=false'\
-    '&c=false'
-
-search_category = {'general': 'web',
-                   'news': 'news'}
-
-
-# do search-request
-def request(query, params):
-    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * number_of_results + 1
-    categorie = search_category.get(params['category'], 'web')
-
-    if params['language'] == 'all':
-        language = 'en'
-    else:
-        language = params['language'].split('-')[0]
-
-    # if language is not supported, put it in english
-    if language != 'en' and\
-       language != 'de' and\
-       language != 'zh':
-        language = 'en'
-
-    params['url'] = search_url.format(offset=offset,
-                                      number_of_results=number_of_results,
-                                      query=urlencode({'q': query}),
-                                      language=language,
-                                      categorie=categorie)
-
-    params['headers']['Referer'] = url
-
-    return params
-
-
-# get response from search-request
-def response(resp):
-    # HTTP-Code 429: rate limit exceeded
-    if resp.status_code == 429:
-        raise Exception("rate limit has been exceeded!")
-
-    results = []
-
-    search_res = loads(resp.text)
-
-    # return empty array if there are no results
-    if not search_res.get('results', {}):
-        return []
-
-    # parse results
-    for result in search_res['results']:
-        publishedDate = None
-        result_json = {'url': result['url'], 'title': result['title'],
-                       'content': result['kwic']}
-        if result['news']:
-            result_json['publishedDate'] = \
-                datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(result['date'] / 1000.0)
-
-        # append image result if image url is set
-        if result['iurl']:
-            result_json['template'] = 'videos.html'
-            result_json['thumbnail'] = result['iurl']
-
-        results.append(result_json)
-
-    # return results
-    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 2729de928..77cc4e087 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -219,11 +219,6 @@ engines:
     shortcut : et
     disabled : True
 
-  - name : faroo
-    engine : faroo
-    shortcut : fa
-    disabled : True
-
   - name : 1x
     engine : www1x
     shortcut : 1x