diff --git a/apps/search/es_utils.py b/apps/search/es_utils.py
index 6d9b94bb203..8bc0b08b37a 100644
--- a/apps/search/es_utils.py
+++ b/apps/search/es_utils.py
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-from itertools import chain, count, izip
+import json
 import logging
+from itertools import chain, count, izip
+
+from django.conf import settings
 
 import elasticutils
 import pyes
 
-from django.conf import settings
-
 
 ESTimeoutError = pyes.urllib3.TimeoutError
 ESMaxRetryError = pyes.urllib3.MaxRetryError
@@ -218,3 +219,46 @@ def es_status_cmd():
                 log.info('    %-20s: %d', name, count)
     else:
         log.info('  Write index is same as read index.')
+
+
+def es_search_cmd(query):
+    """Simulates a front page search
+
+    .. Note::
+
+       This **doesn't** simulate an advanced search---just a front
+       page search.
+
+    """
+    from sumo.tests import LocalizingClient
+    from sumo.urlresolvers import reverse
+
+    client = LocalizingClient()
+
+    output = []
+    output.append('Search for: %s' % query)
+    output.append('')
+
+    data = {
+        'q': query,
+        'q_tags': 'desktop', 'product': 'desktop', 'format': 'json'
+        }
+    url = reverse('search')
+
+    # The search view shows 10 results at a time. So we hit it few
+    # times---once for each page.
+    for pageno in ('1', '2', '3'):
+        data['page'] = pageno
+        resp = client.get(url, data)
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+
+        content = json.loads(resp.content)
+        results = content[u'results']
+
+        for mem in results:
+            output.append(u'%4d  %5.2f  %-10s  %-20s' % (
+                    mem['rank'], mem['score'], mem['type'], mem['title']))
+
+        output.append('')
+
+    print '\n'.join(output)
diff --git a/apps/search/management/commands/essearch.py b/apps/search/management/commands/essearch.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3337c91fbc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/search/management/commands/essearch.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import logging
+
+from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
+
+from search.es_utils import es_search_cmd
+
+
+class Command(BaseCommand):
+    help = 'Does a front-page search for given query'
+
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+        if not args:
+            raise CommandError('You must specify the search query.')
+
+        query = u' '.join(args)
+
+        es_search_cmd(query)
diff --git a/apps/search/views.py b/apps/search/views.py
index be9c226760c..2e6bbc20806 100644
--- a/apps/search/views.py
+++ b/apps/search/views.py
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ def search_with_es(request, template=None):
                     'object': ObjectDict(doc)}
             result['search_summary'] = summary
             result['rank'] = rank
+            result['score'] = doc._score
             results.append(result)
 
     except (ESTimeoutError, ESMaxRetryError, ESException), exc:
@@ -863,6 +864,6 @@ def _build_es_excerpt(result):
     """
     excerpt = EXCERPT_JOINER.join(
         [m.strip() for m in
-         chain(*result.highlighted.values()) if m])
+         chain(*result._highlighted.values()) if m])
 
     return jinja2.Markup(clean_excerpt(excerpt))
diff --git a/vendor/src/elasticutils b/vendor/src/elasticutils
index d2c5aa3878a..61020c3697a 160000
--- a/vendor/src/elasticutils
+++ b/vendor/src/elasticutils
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d2c5aa3878a940d4f97bb1deef8c4206363bd3b7
+Subproject commit 61020c3697af1b750e73b5ed79c4371c12bd9b26