diff --git a/searx/engines/yahoo.py b/searx/engines/yahoo.py
index 6bf1932e4..c13ce6d78 100644
--- a/searx/engines/yahoo.py
+++ b/searx/engines/yahoo.py
@@ -142,8 +142,7 @@ def response(resp):
         title = extract_text(title)[offset:]
 
         content = eval_xpath_getindex(result, './/div[contains(@class, "compText")]', 0, default='')
-        if content:
-            content = extract_text(content)
+        content = extract_text(content, allow_none=True)
 
         # append result
         results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content})