diff --git a/searx/engines/apkmirror.py b/searx/engines/apkmirror.py
index 855d19739..36e838227 100644
--- a/searx/engines/apkmirror.py
+++ b/searx/engines/apkmirror.py
@@ -8,15 +8,12 @@
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 from lxml import html
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import (
     eval_xpath_list,
     eval_xpath_getindex,
     extract_text,
 )
 
-logger = logger.getChild('APKMirror engine')
-
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.apkmirror.com',
     "wikidata_id": None,
diff --git a/searx/engines/artic.py b/searx/engines/artic.py
index 44af4ebd5..85d355ed3 100644
--- a/searx/engines/artic.py
+++ b/searx/engines/artic.py
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ Explore thousands of artworks from The Art Institute of Chicago.
 from json import loads
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 
-from searx import logger
-logger = logger.getChild('APKMirror engine')
-
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.artic.edu',
     "wikidata_id": 'Q239303',
diff --git a/searx/engines/bing.py b/searx/engines/bing.py
index f849cef92..9cac3e926 100644
--- a/searx/engines/bing.py
+++ b/searx/engines/bing.py
@@ -6,11 +6,8 @@
 import re
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 from lxml import html
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import eval_xpath, extract_text, match_language
 
-logger = logger.getChild('bing engine')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.bing.com',
diff --git a/searx/engines/core.py b/searx/engines/core.py
index 0d9724695..5e87400bd 100644
--- a/searx/engines/core.py
+++ b/searx/engines/core.py
@@ -9,11 +9,8 @@ from json import loads
 from datetime import datetime
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineAPIException
 
-logger = logger.getChild('CORE engine')
-
 about = {
     "website": 'https://core.ac.uk',
     "wikidata_id": 'Q22661180',
@@ -29,8 +26,6 @@ nb_per_page = 10
 
 api_key = 'unset'
 
-logger = logger.getChild('CORE engine')
-
 base_url = 'https://core.ac.uk:443/api-v2/search/'
 search_string = '{query}?page={page}&pageSize={nb_per_page}&apiKey={apikey}'
 
diff --git a/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py b/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
index a9098de65..e35b55f74 100644
--- a/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
+++ b/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
@@ -9,15 +9,12 @@ import json
 from urllib.parse import urlencode, urlparse, urljoin
 from lxml import html
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.data import WIKIDATA_UNITS
 from searx.engines.duckduckgo import language_aliases
 from searx.engines.duckduckgo import _fetch_supported_languages, supported_languages_url  # NOQA # pylint: disable=unused-import
 from searx.utils import extract_text, html_to_text, match_language, get_string_replaces_function
 from searx.external_urls import get_external_url, get_earth_coordinates_url, area_to_osm_zoom
 
-logger = logger.getChild('duckduckgo_definitions')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://duckduckgo.com/',
diff --git a/searx/engines/flickr_noapi.py b/searx/engines/flickr_noapi.py
index a07aad51e..1d670ee50 100644
--- a/searx/engines/flickr_noapi.py
+++ b/searx/engines/flickr_noapi.py
@@ -7,11 +7,8 @@ from json import loads
 from time import time
 import re
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from searx.engines import logger
 from searx.utils import ecma_unescape, html_to_text
 
-logger = logger.getChild('flickr-noapi')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.flickr.com',
diff --git a/searx/engines/genius.py b/searx/engines/genius.py
index 9d701a8de..49fda0053 100644
--- a/searx/engines/genius.py
+++ b/searx/engines/genius.py
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ from json import loads
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 from datetime import datetime
 
-from searx import logger
-logger = logger.getChild('genius engine')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://genius.com/',
diff --git a/searx/engines/gigablast.py b/searx/engines/gigablast.py
index d1c2639af..376467d9b 100644
--- a/searx/engines/gigablast.py
+++ b/searx/engines/gigablast.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import re
 from json import loads
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
-# from searx import logger
 from searx.network import get
 
 # about
diff --git a/searx/engines/google.py b/searx/engines/google.py
index e1caabb12..d1f564d99 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google.py
@@ -29,12 +29,9 @@ The google WEB engine itself has a special setup option:
 
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 from lxml import html
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import match_language, extract_text, eval_xpath, eval_xpath_list, eval_xpath_getindex
 from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineCaptchaException
 
-logger = logger.getChild('google engine')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.google.com',
diff --git a/searx/engines/google_images.py b/searx/engines/google_images.py
index f4fbbaa42..bd13144b2 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google_images.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google_images.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 from urllib.parse import urlencode, unquote
 from lxml import html
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import (
     eval_xpath,
     eval_xpath_list,
@@ -37,8 +36,6 @@ from searx.engines.google import (
 )
 # pylint: enable=unused-import
 
-logger = logger.getChild('google images')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://images.google.com',
diff --git a/searx/engines/google_news.py b/searx/engines/google_news.py
index e6d50855e..0dd0c7b94 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google_news.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google_news.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ from urllib.parse import urlencode
 from base64 import b64decode
 from lxml import html
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import (
     eval_xpath,
     eval_xpath_list,
@@ -50,8 +49,6 @@ about = {
     "results": 'HTML',
 }
 
-logger = logger.getChild('google news')
-
 # compared to other google engines google-news has a different time range
 # support.  The time range is included in the search term.
 time_range_dict = {
diff --git a/searx/engines/google_scholar.py b/searx/engines/google_scholar.py
index 8442a7bfa..5c7a0d9e9 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google_scholar.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google_scholar.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ Definitions`_.
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 from datetime import datetime
 from lxml import html
-from searx import logger
 
 from searx.utils import (
     eval_xpath,
@@ -53,8 +52,6 @@ use_locale_domain = True
 time_range_support = True
 safesearch = False
 
-logger = logger.getChild('google scholar')
-
 def time_range_url(params):
     """Returns a URL query component for a google-Scholar time range based on
     ``params['time_range']``.  Google-Scholar does only support ranges in years.
diff --git a/searx/engines/google_videos.py b/searx/engines/google_videos.py
index 3990d5b32..f75b9f5d5 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google_videos.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google_videos.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import re
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 from lxml import html
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import (
     eval_xpath,
     eval_xpath_list,
@@ -59,8 +58,6 @@ about = {
     "results": 'HTML',
 }
 
-logger = logger.getChild('google video')
-
 # engine dependent config
 
 categories = ['videos']
diff --git a/searx/engines/solidtorrents.py b/searx/engines/solidtorrents.py
index 4ed6167d0..57bf675cd 100644
--- a/searx/engines/solidtorrents.py
+++ b/searx/engines/solidtorrents.py
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
 
 from json import loads
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from searx import logger
-
-logger = logger.getChild('solidtor engine')
 
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.solidtorrents.net/',
diff --git a/searx/engines/soundcloud.py b/searx/engines/soundcloud.py
index a6f923855..d5bfc0f6f 100644
--- a/searx/engines/soundcloud.py
+++ b/searx/engines/soundcloud.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ from json import loads
 from lxml import html
 from dateutil import parser
 from urllib.parse import quote_plus, urlencode
-from searx import logger
 from searx.network import get as http_get
 
 # about
diff --git a/searx/engines/springer.py b/searx/engines/springer.py
index 77a82016b..4288d0b4c 100644
--- a/searx/engines/springer.py
+++ b/searx/engines/springer.py
@@ -10,11 +10,8 @@ from datetime import datetime
 from json import loads
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineAPIException
 
-logger = logger.getChild('Springer Nature engine')
-
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.springernature.com/',
     "wikidata_id": 'Q21096327',
diff --git a/searx/engines/sqlite.py b/searx/engines/sqlite.py
index 84db74d62..9a639ff9a 100644
--- a/searx/engines/sqlite.py
+++ b/searx/engines/sqlite.py
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@
 import sqlite3
 import contextlib
 
-from searx import logger
-
-
-logger = logger.getChild('SQLite engine')
-
 engine_type = 'offline'
 database = ""
 query_str = ""
diff --git a/searx/engines/unsplash.py b/searx/engines/unsplash.py
index 834bc917c..dcca18ee6 100644
--- a/searx/engines/unsplash.py
+++ b/searx/engines/unsplash.py
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
 from urllib.parse import urlencode, urlparse, urlunparse, parse_qsl
 from json import loads
 
-from searx import logger
-
-logger = logger.getChild('unsplash engine')
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://unsplash.com',
diff --git a/searx/engines/wikidata.py b/searx/engines/wikidata.py
index ddcce9085..f0dfc7595 100644
--- a/searx/engines/wikidata.py
+++ b/searx/engines/wikidata.py
@@ -10,15 +10,12 @@ from json import loads
 from dateutil.parser import isoparse
 from babel.dates import format_datetime, format_date, format_time, get_datetime_format
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.data import WIKIDATA_UNITS
 from searx.network import post, get
 from searx.utils import match_language, searx_useragent, get_string_replaces_function
 from searx.external_urls import get_external_url, get_earth_coordinates_url, area_to_osm_zoom
 from searx.engines.wikipedia import _fetch_supported_languages, supported_languages_url  # NOQA # pylint: disable=unused-import
 
-logger = logger.getChild('wikidata')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://wikidata.org/',
diff --git a/searx/engines/wordnik.py b/searx/engines/wordnik.py
index 4bfeb4070..0c3785cfb 100644
--- a/searx/engines/wordnik.py
+++ b/searx/engines/wordnik.py
@@ -4,12 +4,9 @@
 """
 
 from lxml.html import fromstring
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import extract_text
 from searx.network import raise_for_httperror
 
-logger = logger.getChild('Wordnik engine')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://www.wordnik.com',
diff --git a/searx/engines/xpath.py b/searx/engines/xpath.py
index 0f88fb29a..3a8d32a6a 100644
--- a/searx/engines/xpath.py
+++ b/searx/engines/xpath.py
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ from urllib.parse import urlencode
 
 from lxml import html
 from searx.utils import extract_text, extract_url, eval_xpath, eval_xpath_list
-from searx import logger
-
-logger = logger.getChild('XPath engine')
 
 search_url = None
 """
diff --git a/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py b/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py
index 98d8bc9f1..750373ffb 100644
--- a/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py
+++ b/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from dateutil import parser
 from lxml import html
 
-from searx import logger
 from searx.utils import (
     eval_xpath_list,
     eval_xpath_getindex,
@@ -23,8 +22,6 @@ from searx.utils import (
 
 from searx.engines.yahoo import parse_url
 
-logger = logger.getChild('yahoo_news engine')
-
 # about
 about = {
     "website": 'https://news.yahoo.com',