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..2fbd00a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/engines/google.go
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/metamorphosis-dev/kafka/internal/contracts"
+)
+
+// GoogleEngine searches Google via direct HTTP.
+// This may be blocked by Google (CAPTCHA/challenge). When blocked,
+// the search service falls back to the configured upstream SearXNG
+// if "google" is NOT in LOCAL_PORTED_ENGINES (i.e., it's treated as upstream).
+//
+// To use: add "google" to LOCAL_PORTED_ENGINES env var.
+// Without that, Google is proxied to upstream SearXNG as normal.
+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
+	}
+
+	u := fmt.Sprintf(
+		"https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&num=%d&hl=%s&safe=%s",
+		url.QueryEscape(req.Query),
+		10,
+		googleHL(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", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
+	httpReq.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.9")
+	httpReq.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8")
+
+	resp, err := e.client.Do(httpReq)
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusMovedPermanently || resp.StatusCode == http.StatusFound {
+		// "I'm Feeling Lucky" redirect — treat the final URL as the top result.
+		finalURL := resp.Request.URL.String()
+		urlPtr := finalURL
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{
+			Query:              req.Query,
+			NumberOfResults:    1,
+			UnresponsiveEngines: [][2]string{},
+			Results: []contracts.MainResult{
+				{
+					Title:    req.Query,
+					URL:      &urlPtr,
+					Content:  "Google result (direct redirect)",
+					Engine:   "google",
+					Score:    1.0,
+					Category: "general",
+					Engines:  []string{"google"},
+				},
+			},
+			Answers:     []map[string]any{},
+			Corrections: []string{},
+			Infoboxes:   []map[string]any{},
+			Suggestions: []string{},
+		}, 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, 64*1024))
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+
+	results := parseGoogleHTML(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:         []string{},
+		UnresponsiveEngines: [][2]string{},
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// parseGoogleHTML extracts results from Google's HTML.
+// This is best-effort — Google's results are JS-rendered and this parser
+// will often return empty results when Google doesn't serve a static page.
+func parseGoogleHTML(body, query string) []contracts.MainResult {
+	var results []contracts.MainResult
+
+	// Google occasionally serves result HTML in a <div class="egGl0c"> or
+	// similar static structure. Look for result links.
+	links := extractGoogleLinks(body)
+	for i, href := range links {
+		if href == "" || strings.HasPrefix(href, "/") || strings.Contains(href, "google.com") {
+			continue
+		}
+		urlPtr := href
+		results = append(results, contracts.MainResult{
+			Title:    fmt.Sprintf("Result %d for %s", i+1, query),
+			URL:      &urlPtr,
+			Content:  "",
+			Engine:   "google",
+			Score:    float64(len(links) - i),
+			Category: "general",
+			Engines:  []string{"google"},
+		})
+	}
+
+	return results
+}
+
+// extractGoogleLinks finds result URLs in Google's HTML.
+func extractGoogleLinks(body string) []string {
+	var links []string
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+
+	// Look for <a href="URL"> patterns pointing to real domains.
+	// Google's result links typically have href="/url?q=REAL_URL&amp;..." structure.
+	for {
+		idx := strings.Index(body, "/url?q=")
+		if idx == -1 {
+			break
+		}
+		body = body[idx+8:]
+		end := strings.Index(body, "&")
+		if end == -1 {
+			break
+		}
+		href, _ := url.QueryUnescape(body[:end])
+		body = body[end:]
+
+		if seen[href] {
+			continue
+		}
+		seen[href] = true
+		if strings.HasPrefix(href, "http") && !strings.Contains(href, "google.com") {
+			links = append(links, href)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return links
+}
+
+// googleHL maps language codes to Google hl parameter.
+func googleHL(lang string) string {
+	lang = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(lang))
+	if lang == "" || lang == "auto" {
+		return "en"
+	}
+	googleHLMap := map[string]string{
+		"en": "en", "de": "de", "fr": "fr", "es": "es", "pt": "pt",
+		"ru": "ru", "ja": "ja", "zh": "zh-CN", "ko": "ko", "it": "it",
+		"nl": "nl", "pl": "pl", "ar": "ar", "hi": "hi", "tr": "tr",
+	}
+	if h, ok := googleHLMap[lang]; ok {
+		return h
+	}
+	return "en"
+}
+
+// googleSafeSearchLevel maps safesearch (0-2) to Google's safe search string.
+func googleSafeSearchLevel(safesearch int) string {
+	switch safesearch {
+	case 0:
+		return "images"
+	case 1:
+		return "active"
+	case 2:
+		return "off"
+	default:
+		return "images"
+	}
+}
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
 }