diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application-ng.rhtml b/app/views/layouts/application-ng.rhtml
index 480e3f9..cc96b58 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application-ng.rhtml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application-ng.rhtml
@@ -69,11 +69,13 @@
               <% end %>
 
           </span>
-          <form action="/search" class="search_form" method="get" class="clean">
-            <input name="query" size="15" title="<%=_('Search...')%>" onfocus="this.form.className='focused';" onblur="this.form.className=''" />
-            <div><%=_('Press <strong>Enter</strong> to send the search query.')%></div>
-            <%= javascript_tag 'jQuery("#user form input").hint();' %>
-          </form>
+          <% if @plugins.first(:search_engine?) %>
+            <form action="/search" class="search_form" method="get" class="clean">
+              <input name="query" size="15" title="<%=_('Search...')%>" onfocus="this.form.className='focused';" onblur="this.form.className=''" />
+              <div><%=_('Press <strong>Enter</strong> to send the search query.')%></div>
+              <%= javascript_tag 'jQuery("#user form input").hint();' %>
+            </form>
+          <% end %>
         </div><!-- end id="user" -->
 
         <h1 id="site-title">
diff --git a/test/functional/home_controller_test.rb b/test/functional/home_controller_test.rb
index 99233ef..09609d8 100644
--- a/test/functional/home_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/functional/home_controller_test.rb
@@ -136,4 +136,14 @@ class HomeControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
     assert_no_tag :tag => 'a', :attributes => {:href => '/account/signup'}
   end
 
+  should "not display search field if there is no search engine on" do
+    Noosfero::Plugin::Manager.any_instance.stubs(:first).with(:search_engine?).returns(false)
+    get :index
+    assert_no_tag :tag => 'input', :attributes => {:name => 'query'}
+
+    Noosfero::Plugin::Manager.any_instance.stubs(:first).with(:search_engine?).returns(true)
+    get :index
+    assert_tag :tag => 'input', :attributes => {:name => 'query'}
+  end
+
 end
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