diff --git a/src/utils/hldata.cpp b/src/utils/hldata.cpp
index da49b4de..c3b9b0a7 100644
--- a/src/utils/hldata.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/hldata.cpp
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ bool matchGroup(const HighlightData& hldata,
             orplists.back().addplist(pl->first, &(pl->second));
         }
         if (orplists.back().plists.empty()) {
-            LOGINF("No positions list found for group " <<
+            LOGRP("No positions list found for group " <<
                    stringsToString(group) << std::endl);
             orplists.pop_back();
         }
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ bool matchGroup(const HighlightData& hldata,
     // I think this can't actually happen, was useful when we used to
     // prune the groups, but doesn't hurt.
     if (orplists.size() < 2) {
-        LOGINF("TextSplitPTR::matchGroup: no actual groups found\n");
+        LOGRP("TextSplitPTR::matchGroup: no actual groups found\n");
         return false;
     }
 
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ bool matchGroup(const HighlightData& hldata,
         }
     }
 
-    return true;
+    return !tboffs.empty();
 }
 
 string HighlightData::toString() const
diff --git a/src/utils/hldata.h b/src/utils/hldata.h
index e9900c95..e4e54369 100644
--- a/src/utils/hldata.h
+++ b/src/utils/hldata.h
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ struct GroupMatchEntry {
 
 // Find NEAR matches for one group of terms.
 //
-// @param hldata User query expansion descriptor (see above).
+// @param hldata User query expansion descriptor (see above). We only use
+//      the index_term_groups entry
 //
 // @param grpidx Index in hldata.index_term_groups for the group we
 //     process. This is used by us to get the terms and slacks, and