diff --git a/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/turpentine_esi.xml b/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/turpentine_esi.xml
index 532319fcd..9bcc07fb1 100644
--- a/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/turpentine_esi.xml
+++ b/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/turpentine_esi.xml
@@ -178,6 +178,25 @@
         -->
     </catalog_product_compare_index>
 
+    <!-- Catalog Search -->
+
+    <!--
+    If the search input box is inside the header, it needs to contain the current search string after searching.
+    The block below overrules the ESI Options for the header on the search results page.
+    We change the scope of the header to "page", so the current URL is passed to the ESI request.
+    We set the TTL to 0, because the same user is probably not going to search for the same string again.
+    -->
+    <catalogsearch_result_index>
+        <reference name="header">
+            <action method="setEsiOptions">
+                <params>
+                    <access>private</access>
+                    <scope>page</scope>
+                    <ttl>0</ttl>
+                </params>
+            </action>
+        </reference>
+    </catalogsearch_result_index>
 
     <!-- Checkout -->