diff --git a/searx/engines/asksteem.py b/searx/engines/asksteem.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6738780fa..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/asksteem.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-"""
- Asksteem (general)
-
- @website     https://asksteem.com/
- @provide-api yes
-
- @using-api   yes
- @results     JSON (https://github.com/Hoxly/asksteem-docs/wiki)
- @stable      yes
- @parse       url, title, content
-"""
-
-from json import loads
-from searx.url_utils import urlencode
-
-# engine dependent config
-categories = ['general']
-paging = True
-language_support = False
-disabled = True
-
-# search-url
-search_url = 'https://api.asksteem.com/search?{params}'
-result_url = 'https://steemit.com/@{author}/{title}'
-
-
-# do search-request
-def request(query, params):
-    url = search_url.format(params=urlencode({'q': query, 'pg': params['pageno']}))
-    params['url'] = url
-    return params
-
-
-# get response from search-request
-def response(resp):
-    json = loads(resp.text)
-
-    results = []
-
-    for result in json.get('results', []):
-        results.append({'url': result_url.format(author=result['author'], title=result['permlink']),
-                        'title': result['title'],
-                        'content': result['summary']})
-    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index f4d6e537c..ff7782b65 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ engines:
     categories : science
     timeout : 4.0
 
-  - name : asksteem
-    engine : asksteem
-    shortcut : as
-
   - name : base
     engine : base
     shortcut : bs