diff --git a/crawl/crawl.py b/crawl/crawl.py
index 3d050a4..d005d20 100644
--- a/crawl/crawl.py
+++ b/crawl/crawl.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import async_timeout
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Comment
 
-from profiles.models import BrowserFingerprint
+from profiles.models import BrowserFingerprint, SearchEngine
 
 # Ugly hack to use this module alone instead of integrating it with Django
 # from django.conf import settings
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ MAX_PER_PAGE = 10
 
 FOOTER_URL = re.compile(".*footer.*")
 
-SEARCH_ENGINE = []
 
 class Settings:
     USER_AGENT = 'Default User'
@@ -105,6 +104,9 @@ class WebsiteSchedulerMeta(type):
 
 class WebsiteScheduler(metaclass=WebsiteSchedulerMeta):
     """ Schedule the accesses to a website as of robots.txt """
+
+    search_engines = []  # Must be set by CrawlingThread.__init__
+
     def __init__(self, name, user_agent):
         self.name = name
         self.last_crawled = datetime.fromtimestamp(0)
@@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ class WebsiteScheduler(metaclass=WebsiteSchedulerMeta):
         self.can_fetch_b = False
         self.user_agent = (user_agent if user_agent is not None
                            else settings.USER_AGENT)
-        if any(self.urlroot() in item for item in SEARCH_ENGINE):
+        if any(self.urlroot() in item for item in self.search_engines):
             print("found a search engine for %s" % self.urlroot())
             self.crawl_delay = timedelta(seconds=5)
             self.can_fetch_b = True
@@ -173,10 +175,9 @@ class CrawlingThread(Thread):
     """ A separate thread for the crawling task. This is needed to use asyncio,
     since the thread will need its own event loop. """
 
-    def __init__(self, user, url, engine_list, queue):
-        global settings
-        global SEARCH_ENGINE
-        SEARCH_ENGINE = engine_list
+    def __init__(self, user, url, queue):
+        engine_list = [engine.url for engine in SearchEngine.objects.all()]
+        WebsiteScheduler.search_engines = engine_list
 
         nb_fingerprint = len(BrowserFingerprint.objects.all())
         fingerprint = BrowserFingerprint.objects.all()[
diff --git a/histories/models.py b/histories/models.py
index d9b20a2..7fd0ae6 100644
--- a/histories/models.py
+++ b/histories/models.py
@@ -77,9 +77,7 @@ def generate_partial_history(user, t_start):
     result.append((basis, timestamp))
     timestamp += 5* random.weibullvariate(1, 1.5)
     queue = Queue()
-    search_engine_query = profiles.SearchEngine.objects.all()
-    search_engine_list = [item.url for item in search_engine_query]
-    crawler = crawl.CrawlingThread(user, basis, search_engine_list, queue)
+    crawler = crawl.CrawlingThread(user, basis, queue)
     crawler.start()
     crawler.join()
     urls = queue.get()