diff --git a/searx/engines/gigablast.py b/searx/engines/gigablast.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8749c325
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/gigablast.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+## Gigablast (Web)
+#
+# @website     http://gigablast.com
+# @provide-api yes (http://gigablast.com/api.html)
+#
+# @using-api   yes
+# @results     XML
+# @stable      yes
+# @parse       url, title, content
+
+from urllib import urlencode
+from cgi import escape
+from lxml import etree
+
+# engine dependent config
+categories = ['general']
+paging = True
+number_of_results = 5
+
+# search-url
+base_url = 'http://gigablast.com/'
+search_string = 'search?{query}&n={number_of_results}&s={offset}&xml=1&qh=0'
+
+# specific xpath variables
+results_xpath = '//response//result'
+url_xpath = './/url'
+title_xpath = './/title'
+content_xpath = './/sum'
+
+
+# do search-request
+def request(query, params):
+    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * number_of_results
+
+    search_path = search_string.format(
+        query=urlencode({'q': query}),
+        offset=offset,
+        number_of_results=number_of_results)
+
+    params['url'] = base_url + search_path
+
+    return params
+
+
+# get response from search-request
+def response(resp):
+    results = []
+
+    dom = etree.fromstring(resp.content)
+
+    # parse results
+    for result in dom.xpath(results_xpath):
+        url = result.xpath(url_xpath)[0].text
+        title = result.xpath(title_xpath)[0].text
+        content = escape(result.xpath(content_xpath)[0].text)
+
+        # append result
+        results.append({'url': url,
+                        'title': title,
+                        'content': content})
+
+    # return results
+    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 8c9941b3..98dadef3 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ engines:
     shortcut : gf
     disabled : True
 
+  - name : gigablast
+    engine : gigablast
+    shortcut : gb
+
   - name : github
     engine : github
     shortcut : gh
diff --git a/searx/tests/engines/test_gigablast.py b/searx/tests/engines/test_gigablast.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38264913
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/tests/engines/test_gigablast.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+from collections import defaultdict
+import mock
+from searx.engines import gigablast
+from searx.testing import SearxTestCase
+
+
+class TestGigablastEngine(SearxTestCase):
+
+    def test_request(self):
+        query = 'test_query'
+        dicto = defaultdict(dict)
+        dicto['pageno'] = 0
+        params = gigablast.request(query, dicto)
+        self.assertTrue('url' in params)
+        self.assertTrue(query in params['url'])
+        self.assertTrue('gigablast.com' in params['url'])
+
+    def test_response(self):
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, gigablast.response, None)
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, gigablast.response, [])
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, gigablast.response, '')
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, gigablast.response, '[]')
+
+        response = mock.Mock(content='<response></response>')
+        self.assertEqual(gigablast.response(response), [])
+
+        response = mock.Mock(content='<response></response>')
+        self.assertEqual(gigablast.response(response), [])
+
+        xml = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+        <response>
+            <hits>5941888</hits>
+            <moreResultsFollow>1</moreResultsFollow>
+            <result>
+                <title><![CDATA[This should be the title]]></title>
+                <sum><![CDATA[This should be the content.]]></sum>
+                <url><![CDATA[http://this.should.be.the.link/]]></url>
+                <size>90.5</size>
+                <docId>145414002633</docId>
+                <siteId>2660021087</siteId>
+                <domainId>2660021087</domainId>
+                <spidered>1320519373</spidered>
+                <indexed>1320519373</indexed>
+                <pubdate>4294967295</pubdate>
+                <isModDate>0</isModDate>
+                <language><![CDATA[English]]></language>
+                <charset><![CDATA[UTF-8]]></charset>
+            </result>
+        </response>
+        """
+        response = mock.Mock(content=xml)
+        results = gigablast.response(response)
+        self.assertEqual(type(results), list)
+        self.assertEqual(len(results), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(results[0]['title'], 'This should be the title')
+        self.assertEqual(results[0]['url'], 'http://this.should.be.the.link/')
+        self.assertEqual(results[0]['content'], 'This should be the content.')
diff --git a/searx/tests/test_engines.py b/searx/tests/test_engines.py
index ff8185b1..30f2d091 100644
--- a/searx/tests/test_engines.py
+++ b/searx/tests/test_engines.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from searx.tests.engines.test_digg import *  # noqa
 from searx.tests.engines.test_dummy import *  # noqa
 from searx.tests.engines.test_flickr import *  # noqa
 from searx.tests.engines.test_flickr_noapi import *  # noqa
+from searx.tests.engines.test_gigablast import *  # noqa
 from searx.tests.engines.test_github import *  # noqa
 from searx.tests.engines.test_www1x import *  # noqa
 from searx.tests.engines.test_google_images import *  # noqa