diff --git a/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc b/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc
index d83ceed54..8636bc6b0 100644
--- a/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc
+++ b/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc
@@ -5112,8 +5112,36 @@ void RsGxsNetService::turtleSearchRequest(const std::string& match_string)
     mGxsNetTunnel->turtleSearchRequest(match_string,this) ;
 }
 
+static bool termSearch(const std::string& src, const std::string& substring)
+{
+		/* always ignore case */
+	return src.end() != std::search( src.begin(), src.end(), substring.begin(), substring.end(), RsRegularExpression::CompareCharIC() );
+}
+
 bool RsGxsNetService::search(const std::string& substring,std::list<RsGxsGroupSummary>& group_infos)
 {
-#warning MISSING CODE HERE!
-    return true ;
+	RsGxsGrpMetaTemporaryMap grpMetaMap;
+    mDataStore->retrieveGxsGrpMetaData(grpMetaMap);
+
+    RsGroupNetworkStats stats ;
+
+    for(auto it(grpMetaMap.begin());it!=grpMetaMap.end();++it)
+		if(termSearch(it->second->mGroupName,substring))
+		{
+			getGroupNetworkStats(it->first,stats) ;
+
+            RsGxsGroupSummary s ;
+            s.group_id           = it->first ;
+    		s.group_name         = it->second->mGroupName ;
+    		s.group_description  = it->second->mGroupName ; // to be filled with something better when we use the real search
+    		s.search_context     = it->second->mGroupName ;
+    		s.author_id          = it->second->mAuthorId;
+    		s.publish_ts         = it->second->mPublishTs;
+    		s.number_of_messages = stats.mMaxVisibleCount ;
+    		s.last_message_ts    = stats.mLastGroupModificationTS ;
+
+            group_infos.push_back(s) ;
+		}
+
+    return !group_infos.empty();
 }
diff --git a/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnettunnel.cc b/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnettunnel.cc
index 7cd657a55..48382754b 100644
--- a/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnettunnel.cc
+++ b/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnettunnel.cc
@@ -1048,7 +1048,12 @@ void RsGxsNetTunnelService::receiveSearchResult(TurtleSearchRequestId request_id
 
     if(result_gs != NULL)
     {
+        std::cerr << "Received group summary result for search request " << std::hex << request_id << " for service " << result_gs->service << std::dec << ": " << std::endl;
 
+        for(auto it(result_gs->group_infos.begin());it!=result_gs->group_infos.end();++it)
+            std::cerr << "   group " << (*it).group_id << ": " << (*it).group_name << ", " << (*it).number_of_messages << " messages, last is " << time(NULL)-(*it).last_message_ts << " secs ago." << std::endl;
+
+#warning MISSING CODE HERE - data should be passed up to UI in some way
     }
 }