diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9aec389..cb1dd86 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 language: php
 
 php:
-  - 5.3
   - 5.4
   - 5.5
   - 5.6
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 79a7c0a..4c65c72 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=5.3.0",
-        "illuminate/support": "~4.1"
+        "php": ">=5.4.0",
+        "illuminate/support": "~4.1",
+        "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~4.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpspec/phpspec": "2.0.*@dev"
diff --git a/spec/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearchSpec.php b/spec/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearchSpec.php
index 8bdf9ca..469f9d0 100644
--- a/spec/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearchSpec.php
+++ b/spec/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearchSpec.php
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ function it_should_throw_an_exception_when_called_with_an_empty_string()
 
     function it_should_throw_an_exception_when_no_valid_engine_id_is_set()
     {
-
-        $this->shouldThrow(new \Exception("could not get results"))->during('getResults', array('test-query') );
+        $this->shouldThrow('\Exception')->during('getResults', array('test-query') );
 
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearch.php b/src/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearch.php
index 5e18ae5..6e982de 100755
--- a/src/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearch.php
+++ b/src/Spatie/GoogleSearch/GoogleSearch.php
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 <?php namespace Spatie\GoogleSearch;
 
 use Spatie\GoogleSearch\Interfaces\GoogleSearchInterface;
+use GuzzleHttp\Client;
 
 class GoogleSearch implements GoogleSearchInterface {
     protected $searchEngineId;
     protected $query;
 
     public function __construct($searchEngineId) {
-         $this->searchEngineId = $searchEngineId;
+        $this->searchEngineId = $searchEngineId;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -20,30 +21,33 @@ public function __construct($searchEngineId) {
      */
     public function getResults($query) {
 
-        $searchResults = array();
+        $searchResults = [];
 
         if ($query == '') {
             return $searchResults;
         }
 
-        $url = "http://www.google.com/cse?cx=" . $this->searchEngineId . "&client=google-csbe&num=20&output=xml_no_dtd&q=" . urlencode($query);
+        if ($this->searchEngineId == '') {
+            throw new \Exception('You must specify a searchEngineId');
+        }
+
+        $client = new Client();
+        $result = $client->get('http://www.google.com/cse', ['query' =>
+
+            ['cx'=> $this->searchEngineId,
+                'client'=> 'google-csbe',
+                'num' => 20,
+                'output'=> 'xml_no_dtd',
+                'q'=> $query
+            ]
+        ]);
 
-        $curl = curl_init();
-        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
-        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
-        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);// allow redirects
-        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // return into a variable
-        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // times out after 4s
 
-//submit the xml request and get the response
-        $result = curl_exec($curl);
-        if(! $result) {
-            throw new \Exception('could not get results');
+        if ($result->getStatusCode() != 200) {
+            throw new \Exception('Resultcode was not ok: ' . $result->getStatusCode());
         }
-        curl_close($curl);
 
-//now parse the xml with
-        $xml = simplexml_load_string($result);
+        $xml = simplexml_load_string($result->getBody());
 
         if ($xml->RES->R) {
             $i=0;