diff --git a/searx/engines/digg.py b/searx/engines/digg.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e12cc43c8..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/digg.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-# lint: pylint
-"""
- Digg (News, Social media)
-"""
-
-from json import loads
-from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from datetime import datetime
-
-from lxml import html
-
-# about
-about = {
-    "website": 'https://digg.com',
-    "wikidata_id": 'Q270478',
-    "official_api_documentation": None,
-    "use_official_api": False,
-    "require_api_key": False,
-    "results": 'HTML',
-}
-
-# engine dependent config
-categories = ['news', 'social media']
-paging = True
-base_url = 'https://digg.com'
-
-# search-url
-search_url = base_url + (
-    '/api/search/'
-    '?{query}'
-    '&from={position}'
-    '&size=20'
-    '&format=html'
-)
-
-def request(query, params):
-    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 20
-    params['url'] = search_url.format(
-        query = urlencode({'q': query}),
-        position = offset,
-    )
-    return params
-
-def response(resp):
-    results = []
-
-    # parse results
-    for result in loads(resp.text)['mapped']:
-
-        # strip html tags and superfluous quotation marks from content
-        content = html.document_fromstring(
-            result['excerpt']
-        ).text_content()
-
-        # 'created': {'ISO': '2020-10-16T14:09:55Z', ...}
-        published = datetime.strptime(
-            result['created']['ISO'], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'
-        )
-        results.append({
-            'url': result['url'],
-            'title': result['title'],
-            'content' : content,
-            'template': 'videos.html',
-            'publishedDate': published,
-            'thumbnail': result['images']['thumbImage'],
-        })
-
-    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 2bf238fde..a936364e6 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -406,10 +406,6 @@ engines:
   #   timeout: 6.0
   #   disabled: true
 
-  - name: digg
-    engine: digg
-    shortcut: dg
-
   - name: docker hub
     engine: docker_hub
     shortcut: dh