diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index bba67e1..1ba6bdc 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ There is no Makefile. There is no linter configured.
 - `internal/config` — TOML-based configuration with env var fallbacks. `Load(path)` reads `config.toml`; env vars override zero-value fields. See `config.example.toml` for all settings.
 - `internal/engines` — `Engine` interface and all 9 Go-native implementations. `factory.go` registers engines via `NewDefaultPortedEngines()`. `planner.go` routes engines to local or upstream based on `LOCAL_PORTED_ENGINES` env var.
 - `internal/search` — `Service` orchestrates the pipeline: cache check, planning, parallel engine execution via goroutines/WaitGroup, upstream proxying, response merging. Individual engine failures are reported as `unresponsive_engines` rather than aborting the search. Qwant has fallback logic to upstream on empty results.
-- `internal/httpapi` — HTTP handlers for `/`, `/search`, `/healthz`, `/opensearch.xml`. Detects HTMX requests via `HX-Request` header to return fragments instead of full pages.
+- `internal/autocomplete` — Fetches search suggestions. Proxies to upstream SearXNG `/autocompleter` if configured, falls back to Wikipedia OpenSearch API otherwise.
+- `internal/httpapi` — HTTP handlers for `/`, `/search`, `/autocompleter`, `/healthz`, `/opensearch.xml`. Detects HTMX requests via `HX-Request` header to return fragments instead of full pages.
 - `internal/upstream` — Client that proxies requests to an upstream SearXNG instance via POST.
 - `internal/cache` — Valkey/Redis-backed cache with SHA-256 cache keys. No-op if unconfigured.
 - `internal/middleware` — Three rate limiters (per-IP sliding window, burst+sustained, global) and CORS. All disabled by default.
diff --git a/internal/engines/factory.go b/internal/engines/factory.go
index 310a20e..937225f 100644
--- a/internal/engines/factory.go
+++ b/internal/engines/factory.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ func NewDefaultPortedEngines(client *http.Client) map[string]Engine {
 		"duckduckgo": &DuckDuckGoEngine{client: client},
 		"github":     &GitHubEngine{client: client},
 		"reddit":     &RedditEngine{client: client},
-		"bing":       &BingEngine{client: client},
+		"bing":   &BingEngine{client: client},
+		"google": &GoogleEngine{client: client},
 	}
 }
diff --git a/internal/engines/google.go b/internal/engines/google.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0371283
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/engines/google.go
@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/metamorphosis-dev/kafka/internal/contracts"
+)
+
+// GSA User-Agent pool — these are Google Search Appliance identifiers
+// that Google trusts for enterprise search appliance traffic.
+var gsaUserAgents = []string{
+	"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/399.2.845414227 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+	"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/406.0.862495628 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+	"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/406.0.862495628 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+	"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/406.0.862495628 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+	"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/399.2.845414227 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+	"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/406.0.862495628 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+}
+
+func gsaUA() string {
+	return gsaUserAgents[0] // deterministic for now; could rotate
+}
+
+type GoogleEngine struct {
+	client *http.Client
+}
+
+func (e *GoogleEngine) Name() string { return "google" }
+
+func (e *GoogleEngine) Search(ctx context.Context, req contracts.SearchRequest) (contracts.SearchResponse, error) {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(req.Query) == "" {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{Query: req.Query}, nil
+	}
+
+	start := (req.Pageno - 1) * 10
+	query := url.QueryEscape(req.Query)
+
+	// Build URL like SearXNG does.
+	u := fmt.Sprintf(
+		"https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&filter=0&start=%d&hl=%s&lr=%s&safe=%s",
+		query,
+		start,
+		googleHL(req.Language),
+		googleUILanguage(req.Language),
+		googleSafeSearchLevel(req.Safesearch),
+	)
+
+	httpReq, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, u, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+	httpReq.Header.Set("User-Agent", gsaUA())
+	httpReq.Header.Set("Accept", "*/*")
+	httpReq.AddCookie(&http.Cookie{Name: "CONSENT", Value: "YES+"})
+
+	resp, err := e.client.Do(httpReq)
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	// Check for Google block / CAPTCHA page.
+	if detectGoogleSorry(resp) {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{
+			Query:               req.Query,
+			NumberOfResults:     0,
+			Results:             nil,
+			Answers:             []map[string]any{},
+			Corrections:         []string{},
+			Infoboxes:           []map[string]any{},
+			Suggestions:         []string{},
+			UnresponsiveEngines: [][2]string{{"google", "blocked by Google (CAPTCHA/sorry page)"}},
+		}, nil
+	}
+
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		body, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 4096))
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, fmt.Errorf("google error: status=%d body=%q", resp.StatusCode, string(body))
+	}
+
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 128*1024))
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+
+	results := parseGoogleResults(string(body), req.Query)
+	return contracts.SearchResponse{
+		Query:               req.Query,
+		NumberOfResults:     len(results),
+		Results:             results,
+		Answers:             []map[string]any{},
+		Corrections:         []string{},
+		Infoboxes:           []map[string]any{},
+		Suggestions:         extractGoogleSuggestions(string(body)),
+		UnresponsiveEngines: [][2]string{},
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// detectGoogleSorry returns true if the response is a Google block/CAPTCHA page.
+func detectGoogleSorry(resp *http.Response) bool {
+	if resp.Request != nil {
+		if resp.Request.URL.Host == "sorry.google.com" || strings.HasPrefix(resp.Request.URL.Path, "/sorry") {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// parseGoogleResults extracts search results from Google's HTML.
+// Uses the same selectors as SearXNG: div.MjjYud for result containers.
+func parseGoogleResults(body, query string) []contracts.MainResult {
+	var results []contracts.MainResult
+
+	// SearXNG selector: .//div[contains(@class, "MjjYud")]
+	// Each result block contains a title link and snippet.
+	// We simulate the XPath matching with regex-based extraction.
+
+	// Find all MjjYud div blocks.
+	mjjPattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<div[^>]*class="[^"]*MjjYud[^"]*"[^>]*>(.*?)</div>\s*(?=<div[^>]*class="[^"]*MjjYud|$)`)
+	matches := mjjPattern.FindAllStringSubmatch(body, -1)
+
+	for i, match := range matches {
+		if len(match) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		block := match[1]
+
+		// Extract title and URL from the result link.
+		// Pattern: <a href="/url?q=ACTUAL_URL&amp;sa=..." ...>TITLE</a>
+		urlPattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<a[^>]+href="(/url\?q=[^"&]+)`)
+		urlMatch := urlPattern.FindStringSubmatch(block)
+		if len(urlMatch) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		rawURL := urlMatch[1]
+		// Remove /url?q= prefix and decode.
+		actualURL := strings.TrimPrefix(rawURL, "/url?q=")
+		if amp := strings.Index(actualURL, "&amp;"); amp != -1 {
+			actualURL = actualURL[:amp]
+		}
+		if decoded, err := url.QueryUnescape(actualURL); err == nil {
+			actualURL = decoded
+		}
+
+		if actualURL == "" || !strings.HasPrefix(actualURL, "http") {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Extract title from the title tag.
+		titlePattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<span[^>]*class="[^"]*qrStP[^"]*"[^>]*>([^<]+)</span>`)
+		titleMatch := titlePattern.FindStringSubmatch(block)
+		title := query
+		if len(titleMatch) >= 2 {
+			title = stripTags(titleMatch[1])
+		} else {
+			// Fallback: extract visible text from an <a> with data-title or role="link"
+			linkTitlePattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<a[^>]+role="link"[^>]*>([^<]+)<`)
+			ltMatch := linkTitlePattern.FindStringSubmatch(block)
+			if len(ltMatch) >= 2 {
+				title = stripTags(ltMatch[1])
+			}
+		}
+
+		// Extract snippet from data-sncf divs (SearXNG's approach).
+		snippet := extractGoogleSnippet(block)
+
+		urlPtr := actualURL
+		results = append(results, contracts.MainResult{
+			Title:    title,
+			URL:       &urlPtr,
+			Content:   snippet,
+			Engine:    "google",
+			Score:     float64(len(matches) - i),
+			Category:  "general",
+			Engines:   []string{"google"},
+			Template:  "default.html",
+		})
+	}
+
+	return results
+}
+
+// extractGoogleSnippet extracts the snippet text from a Google result block.
+func extractGoogleSnippet(block string) string {
+	// Google's snippets live in divs with data-sncf attribute.
+	// SearXNG looks for: .//div[contains(@data-sncf, "1")]
+	snippetPattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<div[^>]+data-sncf="1"[^>]*>(.*?)</div>`)
+	matches := snippetPattern.FindAllStringSubmatch(block, -1)
+	var parts []string
+	for _, m := range matches {
+		if len(m) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		text := stripTags(m[1])
+		if text != "" {
+			parts = append(parts, text)
+		}
+	}
+	return strings.Join(parts, " ")
+}
+
+// extractGoogleSuggestions extracts search suggestions from Google result cards.
+func extractGoogleSuggestions(body string) []string {
+	var suggestions []string
+	// SearXNG xpath: //div[contains(@class, "ouy7Mc")]//a
+	suggestionPattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<div[^>]*class="[^"]*ouy7Mc[^"]*"[^>]*>.*?<a[^>]*>([^<]+)</a>`, regexp.DotAll)
+	matches := suggestionPattern.FindAllStringSubmatch(body, -1)
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, m := range matches {
+		if len(m) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		s := strings.TrimSpace(stripTags(m[1]))
+		if s != "" && !seen[s] {
+			seen[s] = true
+			suggestions = append(suggestions, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return suggestions
+}
+
+// googleHL maps SearXNG locale to Google hl (host language) parameter.
+// e.g. "en-US" -> "en-US"
+func googleHL(lang string) string {
+	lang = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(lang))
+	if lang == "" || lang == "auto" {
+		return "en"
+	}
+	return lang
+}
+
+// googleUILanguage maps SearXNG language to Google lr (language restrict) parameter.
+// e.g. "en" -> "lang_en", "de" -> "lang_de"
+func googleUILanguage(lang string) string {
+	lang = strings.ToLower(strings.Split(lang, "-")[0])
+	if lang == "" || lang == "auto" {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return "lang_" + lang
+}
+
+// googleSafeSearchLevel maps safesearch (0-2) to Google's safe parameter.
+func googleSafeSearchLevel(safesearch int) string {
+	switch safesearch {
+	case 0:
+		return "off"
+	case 1:
+		return "medium"
+	case 2:
+		return "high"
+	default:
+		return "medium"
+	}
+}
+
+// stripTags removes HTML tags from a string.
+func stripTags(s string) string {
+	stripper := regexp.MustCompile(`<[^>]*>`)
+	s = stripper.ReplaceAllString(s, "")
+	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "&amp;", "&")
+	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "&quot;", `"`)
+	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "&#39;", "'")
+	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "&nbsp;", " ")
+	return strings.TrimSpace(s)
+}
diff --git a/internal/engines/planner.go b/internal/engines/planner.go
index 543f253..08b0a27 100644
--- a/internal/engines/planner.go
+++ b/internal/engines/planner.go
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ func inferFromCategories(categories []string) []string {
 			set["qwant"] = true
 			set["duckduckgo"] = true
 			set["bing"] = true
+			set["google"] = true
 		case "science", "scientific publications":
 			set["arxiv"] = true
 			set["crossref"] = true
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ func inferFromCategories(categories []string) []string {
 		out = append(out, e)
 	}
 	// stable order
-	order := map[string]int{"wikipedia": 0, "braveapi": 1, "qwant": 2, "duckduckgo": 3, "bing": 4, "arxiv": 5, "crossref": 6, "github": 7, "reddit": 8}
+	order := map[string]int{"wikipedia": 0, "braveapi": 1, "qwant": 2, "duckduckgo": 3, "bing": 4, "google": 5, "arxiv": 6, "crossref": 7, "github": 8, "reddit": 9}
 	sortByOrder(out, order)
 	return out
 }
diff --git a/internal/views/static/css/kafka.css b/internal/views/static/css/kafka.css
index ad794c4..376b2d8 100644
--- a/internal/views/static/css/kafka.css
+++ b/internal/views/static/css/kafka.css
@@ -421,6 +421,63 @@ footer a:hover {
   display: block;
 }
 
+/* Autocomplete dropdown */
+#search {
+  position: relative;
+}
+
+#autocomplete-dropdown {
+  position: absolute;
+  top: 100%;
+  left: 0;
+  right: 0;
+  background: var(--color-base-background);
+  border: 1px solid var(--color-search-border);
+  border-top: none;
+  border-radius: 0 0 var(--radius) var(--radius);
+  box-shadow: 0 4px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
+  z-index: 100;
+  max-height: 320px;
+  overflow-y: auto;
+  display: none;
+}
+
+#autocomplete-dropdown.open {
+  display: block;
+}
+
+.autocomplete-suggestion {
+  padding: 0.6rem 1rem;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  font-size: 0.95rem;
+  color: var(--color-base-font);
+  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-result-border);
+  transition: background 0.15s;
+}
+
+.autocomplete-suggestion:last-child {
+  border-bottom: none;
+}
+
+.autocomplete-suggestion:hover,
+.autocomplete-suggestion.active {
+  background: var(--color-header-background);
+}
+
+.autocomplete-suggestion mark {
+  background: none;
+  color: var(--color-link);
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+
+.autocomplete-footer {
+  padding: 0.4rem 1rem;
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  color: var(--color-suggestion);
+  border-top: 1px solid var(--color-result-border);
+  background: var(--color-header-background);
+}
+
 /* Responsive */
 @media (max-width: 768px) {
   #results {
diff --git a/internal/views/templates/base.html b/internal/views/templates/base.html
index 10de540..6572b19 100644
--- a/internal/views/templates/base.html
+++ b/internal/views/templates/base.html
@@ -20,6 +20,123 @@
   <footer>
     <p>Powered by <a href="https://git.ashisgreat.xyz/penal-colony/kafka">kafka</a> — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine</p>
   </footer>
+  <script>
+  (function () {
+    'use strict';
+
+    var input = document.getElementById('q');
+    var dropdown = document.getElementById('autocomplete-dropdown');
+    var form = document.getElementById('search-form');
+    var debounceTimer = null;
+    var suggestions = [];
+    var activeIndex = -1;
+    var fetchController = null;
+
+    // Escape regex special chars for highlight matching
+    function escapeRegex(str) {
+      return str.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&');
+    }
+
+    // Highlight matching prefix
+    function highlight(text, query) {
+      if (!query) return text;
+      var re = new RegExp('^(' + escapeRegex(query) + ')', 'i');
+      return text.replace(re, '<mark>$1</mark>');
+    }
+
+    function renderDropdown() {
+      if (suggestions.length === 0) {
+        dropdown.classList.remove('open');
+        return;
+      }
+      var html = '';
+      for (var i = 0; i < suggestions.length; i++) {
+        var escaped = highlight(suggestions[i], input.value);
+        html += '<div class="autocomplete-suggestion" data-index="' + i + '">' + escaped + '</div>';
+      }
+      html += '<div class="autocomplete-footer">Press <kbd>↑</kbd><kbd>↓</kbd> to navigate, Enter to select, Esc to close</div>';
+      dropdown.innerHTML = html;
+      dropdown.classList.add('open');
+      activeIndex = -1;
+    }
+
+    function closeDropdown() {
+      dropdown.classList.remove('open');
+      suggestions = [];
+      activeIndex = -1;
+    }
+
+    function selectSuggestion(index) {
+      if (index < 0 || index >= suggestions.length) return;
+      input.value = suggestions[index];
+      closeDropdown();
+      form.submit();
+    }
+
+    function updateActive(newIndex) {
+      var items = dropdown.querySelectorAll('.autocomplete-suggestion');
+      items.forEach(function (el) { el.classList.remove('active'); });
+      if (newIndex >= 0 && newIndex < items.length) {
+        items[newIndex].classList.add('active');
+        items[newIndex].scrollIntoView({ block: 'nearest' });
+      }
+      activeIndex = newIndex;
+    }
+
+    function fetchSuggestions(query) {
+      if (fetchController) fetchController.abort();
+      fetchController = new AbortController();
+      fetch('/autocompleter?q=' + encodeURIComponent(query), { signal: fetchController.signal })
+        .then(function (r) { return r.json(); })
+        .then(function (data) {
+          suggestions = data || [];
+          renderDropdown();
+        })
+        .catch(function (e) {
+          if (e.name !== 'AbortError') suggestions = [];
+          dropdown.classList.remove('open');
+        });
+    }
+
+    input.addEventListener('input', function () {
+      clearTimeout(debounceTimer);
+      var q = input.value.trim();
+      if (q.length < 2) { closeDropdown(); return; }
+      debounceTimer = setTimeout(function () { fetchSuggestions(q); }, 250);
+    });
+
+    input.addEventListener('keydown', function (e) {
+      if (!dropdown.classList.contains('open')) return;
+      var items = dropdown.querySelectorAll('.autocomplete-suggestion');
+      if (e.key === 'ArrowDown') {
+        e.preventDefault();
+        updateActive(Math.min(activeIndex + 1, items.length - 1));
+      } else if (e.key === 'ArrowUp') {
+        e.preventDefault();
+        updateActive(Math.max(activeIndex - 1, -1));
+      } else if (e.key === 'Enter' && activeIndex >= 0) {
+        e.preventDefault();
+        selectSuggestion(activeIndex);
+      } else if (e.key === 'Escape') {
+        closeDropdown();
+      }
+    });
+
+    input.addEventListener('blur', function () {
+      // Delay to allow click events on suggestions
+      setTimeout(closeDropdown, 150);
+    });
+
+    dropdown.addEventListener('mousedown', function (e) {
+      var item = e.target.closest('.autocomplete-suggestion');
+      if (item) {
+        e.preventDefault(); // prevent blur from firing before select
+        var idx = parseInt(item.getAttribute('data-index'), 10);
+        selectSuggestion(idx);
+      }
+    });
+  }());
+  </script>
 </body>
 </html>
 {{end}}
diff --git a/internal/views/templates/index.html b/internal/views/templates/index.html
index e2ca279..c9df700 100644
--- a/internal/views/templates/index.html
+++ b/internal/views/templates/index.html
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@
 <div class="index">
   <div class="title"><h1>kafka</h1></div>
   <div id="search">
-    <form method="GET" action="/search" role="search">
+    <form method="GET" action="/search" role="search" id="search-form">
       <input type="text" name="q" id="q" placeholder="Search…" autocomplete="off" autofocus
         hx-get="/search" hx-target="#results" hx-trigger="keyup changed delay:500ms" hx-include="this">
       <button type="submit">Search</button>
     </form>
+    <div id="autocomplete-dropdown"></div>
   </div>
 </div>
 <div id="results"></div>