diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c67c7ee..c970f19 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ gunicorn
 lxml
 parsedatetime
 psycopg2
+pyelasticsearch
 Pygments
-pysolr
 python-memcached
 python-postmark
 pyyaml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Werkzeug
 
 git+git://github.com/dlo/bottlenose.git
 git+git://github.com/yoavaviram/python-amazon-simple-product-api.git
+git+git://github.com/toastdriven/pyelasticsearch.git
 git+https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack.git@master#egg=django-haystack
 hg+https://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-registration#egg=django-registration
 git+https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie.git#egg=django-tastypie
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 9f37959..3ae1ac8 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -218,8 +218,9 @@ AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'accounts.UserProfile'
 # Search
 HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
     'default': {
-        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine',
-        'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr'
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine',
+        'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/',
+        'INDEX_NAME': 'haystack',
     },
 }