Depending on your version of CiviCRM & the search you are overriding you may need
to hack the template file to be able to show the columns. As of writing the latest
4.7 did not require it due to [this patch](https://github.com/aydun/civicrm-core/commit/4fb5fcf3b17af6c9f5bf49ecc69902c5b0b78c24). If you are wishing to update
another search results you should contribute a similar patch to core for those