diff --git a/docs/dev/engines/online/presearch.rst b/docs/dev/engines/online/presearch.rst
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-.. _engine presearch:
-
-================
-Presearch Engine
-================
-
-.. automodule:: searx.engines.presearch
-   :members:
diff --git a/searx/engines/presearch.py b/searx/engines/presearch.py
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-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-"""Presearch supports the search types listed in :py:obj:`search_type` (general,
-images, videos, news).
-
-Configured ``presarch`` engines:
-
-.. code:: yaml
-
-  - name: presearch
-    engine: presearch
-    search_type: search
-    categories: [general, web]
-
-  - name: presearch images
-    ...
-    search_type: images
-    categories: [images, web]
-
-  - name: presearch videos
-    ...
-    search_type: videos
-    categories: [general, web]
-
-  - name: presearch news
-    ...
-    search_type: news
-    categories: [news, web]
-
-.. hint::
-
-   By default Presearch's video category is intentionally placed into::
-
-       categories: [general, web]
-
-
-Search type ``video``
-=====================
-
-The results in the video category are most often links to pages that contain a
-video, for instance many links from Preasearch's video category link content
-from facebook (aka Meta) or Twitter (aka X).  Since these are not real links to
-video streams SearXNG can't use the video template for this and if SearXNG can't
-use this template, then the user doesn't want to see these hits in the videos
-category.
-
-
-Languages & Regions
-===================
-
-In Presearch there are languages for the UI and regions for narrowing down the
-search.  If we set "auto" for the region in the WEB-UI of Presearch and cookie
-``use_local_search_results=false``, then the defaults are set for both (the
-language and the region) from the ``Accept-Language`` header.
-
-Since the region is already "auto" by default, we only need to set the
-``use_local_search_results`` cookie and send the ``Accept-Language`` header.  We
-have to set these values in both requests we send to Presearch; in the first
-request to get the request-ID from Presearch and in the final request to get the
-result list.
-
-The time format returned by Presearch varies depending on the language set.
-Multiple different formats can be supported by using ``dateutil`` parser, but
-it doesn't support formats such as "N time ago", "vor N time" (German),
-"Hace N time" (Spanish). Because of this, the dates are simply joined together
-with the rest of other metadata.
-
-
-Implementations
-===============
-
-"""
-
-from urllib.parse import urlencode, urlparse
-from searx import locales
-from searx.network import get
-from searx.utils import gen_useragent, html_to_text, parse_duration_string
-
-about = {
-    "website": "https://presearch.io",
-    "wikidata_id": "Q7240905",
-    "official_api_documentation": "https://docs.presearch.io/nodes/api",
-    "use_official_api": False,
-    "require_api_key": False,
-    "results": "JSON",
-}
-paging = True
-safesearch = True
-time_range_support = True
-categories = ["general", "web"]  # general, images, videos, news
-
-# HTTP2 requests immediately get blocked by a CAPTCHA
-enable_http2 = False
-
-search_type = "search"
-"""must be any of ``search``, ``images``, ``videos``, ``news``"""
-
-base_url = "https://presearch.com"
-safesearch_map = {0: 'false', 1: 'true', 2: 'true'}
-
-
-def init(_):
-    if search_type not in ['search', 'images', 'videos', 'news']:
-        raise ValueError(f'presearch search_type: {search_type}')
-
-
-def _get_request_id(query, params):
-
-    args = {
-        "q": query,
-        "page": params["pageno"],
-    }
-
-    if params["time_range"]:
-        args["time"] = params["time_range"]
-
-    url = f"{base_url}/{search_type}?{urlencode(args)}"
-
-    headers = {
-        'User-Agent': gen_useragent(),
-        'Cookie': (
-            f"b=1;"
-            f" presearch_session=;"
-            f" use_local_search_results=false;"
-            f" use_safe_search={safesearch_map[params['safesearch']]}"
-        ),
-    }
-    if params['searxng_locale'] != 'all':
-        l = locales.get_locale(params['searxng_locale'])
-
-        # Presearch narrows down the search by region.  In SearXNG when the user
-        # does not set a region (e.g. 'en-CA' / canada) we cannot hand over a region.
-
-        # We could possibly use searx.locales.get_official_locales to determine
-        # in which regions this language is an official one, but then we still
-        # wouldn't know which region should be given more weight / Presearch
-        # performs an IP-based geolocation of the user, we don't want that in
-        # SearXNG ;-)
-
-        if l and l.territory:
-            headers['Accept-Language'] = f"{l.language}-{l.territory},{l.language};" "q=0.9,*;" "q=0.5"
-
-    resp = get(url, headers=headers, timeout=5)
-
-    for line in resp.text.split("\n"):
-        if "window.searchId = " in line:
-            return line.split("= ")[1][:-1].replace('"', ""), resp.cookies
-
-    raise RuntimeError("Couldn't find any request id for presearch")
-
-
-def request(query, params):
-    request_id, cookies = _get_request_id(query, params)
-    params["headers"]["Accept"] = "application/json"
-    params["url"] = f"{base_url}/results?id={request_id}"
-    params["cookies"] = cookies
-
-    return params
-
-
-def _strip_leading_strings(text):
-    for x in ['wikipedia', 'google']:
-        if text.lower().endswith(x):
-            text = text[: -len(x)]
-    return text.strip()
-
-
-def _fix_title(title, url):
-    """
-    Titles from Presearch shows domain + title without spacing, and HTML
-    This function removes these 2 issues.
-    Transforming "translate.google.co.in<em>Google</em> Translate" into "Google Translate"
-    """
-    parsed_url = urlparse(url)
-    domain = parsed_url.netloc
-    title = html_to_text(title)
-    # Fixes issue where domain would show up in the title
-    # translate.google.co.inGoogle Translate -> Google Translate
-    if (
-        title.startswith(domain)
-        and len(title) > len(domain)
-        and not title.startswith(domain + "/")
-        and not title.startswith(domain + " ")
-    ):
-        title = title.removeprefix(domain)
-    return title
-
-
-def parse_search_query(json_results):
-    results = []
-    if not json_results:
-        return results
-
-    for item in json_results.get('specialSections', {}).get('topStoriesCompact', {}).get('data', []):
-        result = {
-            'url': item['link'],
-            'title': _fix_title(item['title'], item['link']),
-            'thumbnail': item['image'],
-            'content': '',
-            'metadata': item.get('source'),
-        }
-        results.append(result)
-
-    for item in json_results.get('standardResults', []):
-        result = {
-            'url': item['link'],
-            'title': _fix_title(item['title'], item['link']),
-            'content': html_to_text(item['description']),
-        }
-        results.append(result)
-
-    info = json_results.get('infoSection', {}).get('data')
-    if info:
-        attributes = []
-        for item in info.get('about', []):
-
-            text = html_to_text(item)
-            if ':' in text:
-                # split text into key / value
-                label, value = text.split(':', 1)
-            else:
-                # In other languages (tested with zh-TW) a colon is represented
-                # by a different symbol --> then we split at the first space.
-                label, value = text.split(' ', 1)
-                label = label[:-1]
-
-            value = _strip_leading_strings(value)
-            attributes.append({'label': label, 'value': value})
-        content = []
-        for item in [info.get('subtitle'), info.get('description')]:
-            if not item:
-                continue
-            item = _strip_leading_strings(html_to_text(item))
-            if item:
-                content.append(item)
-
-        results.append(
-            {
-                'infobox': info['title'],
-                'id': info['title'],
-                'img_src': info.get('image'),
-                'content': ' | '.join(content),
-                'attributes': attributes,
-            }
-        )
-    return results
-
-
-def response(resp):
-    results = []
-    json_resp = resp.json()
-
-    if search_type == 'search':
-        results = parse_search_query(json_resp.get('results', {}))
-
-    elif search_type == 'images':
-        for item in json_resp.get('images', []):
-            results.append(
-                {
-                    'template': 'images.html',
-                    'title': html_to_text(item['title']),
-                    'url': item.get('link'),
-                    'img_src': item.get('image'),
-                    'thumbnail_src': item.get('thumbnail'),
-                }
-            )
-
-    elif search_type == 'videos':
-        # The results in the video category are most often links to pages that contain
-        # a video and not to a video stream --> SearXNG can't use the video template.
-
-        for item in json_resp.get('videos', []):
-            duration = item.get('duration')
-            if duration:
-                duration = parse_duration_string(duration)
-
-            results.append(
-                {
-                    'title': html_to_text(item['title']),
-                    'url': item.get('link'),
-                    'content': item.get('description', ''),
-                    'thumbnail': item.get('image'),
-                    'length': duration,
-                }
-            )
-
-    elif search_type == 'news':
-        for item in json_resp.get('news', []):
-            source = item.get('source')
-            # Bug on their end, time sometimes returns "</a>"
-            time = html_to_text(item.get('time')).strip()
-            metadata = [source]
-            if time != "":
-                metadata.append(time)
-
-            results.append(
-                {
-                    'title': html_to_text(item['title']),
-                    'url': item.get('link'),
-                    'content': html_to_text(item.get('description', '')),
-                    'metadata': ' / '.join(metadata),
-                    'thumbnail': item.get('image'),
-                }
-            )
-
-    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 37a4bf1a5..cca7ec375 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -2016,41 +2016,6 @@ engines:
     shortcut: poc
     disabled: true
 
-  - name: presearch
-    engine: presearch
-    search_type: search
-    categories: [general, web]
-    shortcut: ps
-    timeout: 4.0
-    disabled: true
-
-  - name: presearch images
-    engine: presearch
-    network: presearch
-    search_type: images
-    categories: [images, web]
-    timeout: 4.0
-    shortcut: psimg
-    disabled: true
-
-  - name: presearch videos
-    engine: presearch
-    network: presearch
-    search_type: videos
-    categories: [general, web]
-    timeout: 4.0
-    shortcut: psvid
-    disabled: true
-
-  - name: presearch news
-    engine: presearch
-    network: presearch
-    search_type: news
-    categories: [news, web]
-    timeout: 4.0
-    shortcut: psnews
-    disabled: true
-
   - name: pub.dev
     engine: xpath
     shortcut: pd