diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.cpp b/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.cpp
index bd43758e6..0d37ae648 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.cpp
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.cpp
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
   }
   
   /* Search strings in the database */
-  void CluceneSearcher::searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount) {
+  void CluceneSearcher::searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, const bool verbose) {
     IndexSearcher searcher(reader);
     SimpleAnalyzer analyzer;
     QueryParser parser(_T("content"), &analyzer);
diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.h b/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.h
index 3264a96bd..d9d551c7c 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.h
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/cluceneSearcher.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
   public:
     CluceneSearcher(const string &cluceneDirectoryPath);
 
-    void searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount);
+    void searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, const bool verbose=false);
 
   protected:
     void closeIndex();
diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/searcher.cpp b/src/common/kiwix/searcher.cpp
index 71f8c8f14..7c394f121 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/searcher.cpp
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/searcher.cpp
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
   }
   
   /* Search strings in the database */
-  void Searcher::search(std::string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, bool verbose) {
+  void Searcher::search(std::string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, const bool verbose) {
 
     this->reset();
     
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
       cout << "Performing query `" << search << "'" << endl;
     }
 
-    searchInIndex(removeAccents(search), resultsCount);
+    searchInIndex(removeAccents(search), resultsCount, verbose);
 
     this->resultOffset = this->results.begin();
 
diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/searcher.h b/src/common/kiwix/searcher.h
index 8f58213c4..ece2d3aba 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/searcher.h
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/searcher.h
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ namespace kiwix {
   public:
     Searcher();
 
-    void search(std::string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, bool verbose=false);
+    void search(std::string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, const bool verbose=false);
     bool getNextResult(string &url, string &title, unsigned int &score);
     void reset();
 
   protected:
     virtual void closeIndex() = 0;
-    virtual void searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount) = 0;
+    virtual void searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, const bool verbose=false) = 0;
 
     std::vector<Result> results;
     std::vector<Result>::iterator resultOffset;
diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.cpp b/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.cpp
index 01c349779..66e28b43e 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.cpp
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.cpp
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
   }
   
   /* Search strings in the database */
-  void XapianSearcher::searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount) {
+  void XapianSearcher::searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, const bool verbose) {
     /* Create the query */
     Xapian::QueryParser queryParser;
     Xapian::Query query = queryParser.parse_query(search);    
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ namespace kiwix {
       result.score = i.get_percent();
       
       this->results.push_back(result);
+
+      if (verbose) {
+	std::cout << "Document ID " << *i << "   \t";
+	std::cout << i.get_percent() << "% ";
+	std::cout << "\t[" << doc.get_data() << "] - " << doc.get_value(0) << std::endl;
+      }
+
     }
 
     return;
diff --git a/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.h b/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.h
index e5200d62c..8f955bc8f 100644
--- a/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.h
+++ b/src/common/kiwix/xapianSearcher.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ namespace kiwix {
   public:
     XapianSearcher(const string &xapianDirectoryPath);
 
-    void searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount);
+    void searchInIndex(string &search, const unsigned int resultsCount, const bool verbose=false);
 
   protected:
     void closeIndex();