diff --git a/include/searcher.h b/include/searcher.h
index e677cc98e..4381c1d30 100644
--- a/include/searcher.h
+++ b/include/searcher.h
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ struct SuggestionInternal;
 /**
  * The Searcher class is reponsible to do different kind of search using the
  * fulltext index.
+ *
+ * The Searcher is now deprecated. Use libzim search feature.
  */
 class Searcher
 {
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ class Searcher
   /**
    * The default constructor.
    */
-  Searcher();
+  DEPRECATED Searcher();
 
   ~Searcher();
 
diff --git a/test/meson.build b/test/meson.build
index 43d7a1e78..62b210871 100644
--- a/test/meson.build
+++ b/test/meson.build
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ tests = [
     'book',
     'manager',
     'name_mapper',
-    'opds_catalog',
-    'searcher'
+    'opds_catalog'
 ]
 
 if build_machine.system() != 'windows'
diff --git a/test/searcher.cpp b/test/searcher.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 5adb0adeb..000000000
--- a/test/searcher.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-#include "gtest/gtest.h"
-#include "../include/searcher.h"
-#include "../include/reader.h"
-
-namespace kiwix
-{
-
-TEST(Searcher, add_reader) {
-  Reader reader1("./test/example.zim");
-  Reader reader2("./test/example.zim");
-  Reader reader3("./test/../test/example.zim");
-
-  Searcher searcher;
-  ASSERT_TRUE (searcher.add_reader(&reader1));
-  ASSERT_FALSE(searcher.add_reader(&reader1));
-  ASSERT_FALSE(searcher.add_reader(&reader2));
-  ASSERT_FALSE(searcher.add_reader(&reader3));
-}
-
-TEST(Searcher, search) {
-  Reader reader("./test/example.zim");
-
-  Searcher searcher;
-  searcher.add_reader(&reader);
-  ASSERT_EQ(searcher.get_reader(0)->getTitle(), reader.getTitle());
-
-  searcher.search("wiki", 0, 2);
-  searcher.restart_search();
-  ASSERT_EQ(searcher.getEstimatedResultCount(), (unsigned int)2);
-
-  auto result = searcher.getNextResult();
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_title(), "FreedomBox for Communities/Offline Wikipedia - Wikibooks, open books for an open world");
-  result = searcher.getNextResult();
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_title(), "Wikibooks");
-}
-
-TEST(Searcher, suggestion) {
-  Reader reader("./test/zimfile.zim");
-
-  Searcher searcher;
-  searcher.add_reader(&reader);
-  ASSERT_EQ(searcher.get_reader(0)->getTitle(), reader.getTitle());
-
-  std::string query = "ray";
-  searcher.suggestions(query, true);
-  searcher.restart_search();
-
-  auto result = searcher.getNextResult();
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_title(), "Charles, Ray");
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_url(), "A/Charles,_Ray");
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_snippet(), "Charles, <b>Ray</b>");
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_score(), 0);
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_content(), "");
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_size(), 0);
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_wordCount(), 0);
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_zimId(), "");
-
-  result = searcher.getNextResult();
-  ASSERT_EQ(result->get_title(), "Ray (film)");
-}
-
-TEST(Searcher, incrementalRange) {
-  // Attempt to get 50 results in steps of 5
-  zim::Archive archive("./test/zimfile.zim");
-  zim::Searcher ftsearcher(archive);
-  zim::Query query;
-  query.setQuery("ray");
-  auto search = ftsearcher.search(query);
-
-  int suggCount = 0;
-  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
-    auto srs = search.getResults(i*5, 5); // get 5 results
-    ASSERT_EQ(srs.size(), 5);
-    suggCount += srs.size();
-  }
-  ASSERT_EQ(suggCount, 50);
-}
-
-}