# Doing Empty Searches with jQuery plugin

**URL:** https://community.swiftype.com/t/doing-empty-searches-with-jquery-plugin/321
**Category:** Helpline
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/doing-empty-searches-with-jquery-plugin/321 "2017-03-02T18:56:52Z")
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### Author: ![joshuabalentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joshuabalentine](https://community.swiftype.com/u/joshuabalentine)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/doing-empty-searches-with-jquery-plugin/321/1 "2017-03-02T18:56:53Z")

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Is there a way to perform empty searches with the jQuery search plugin?

From what I see, it is driven from the stq hash parameter and only does a search when it has a truthy js value.

I’m using it as a product search that should by default show all products and limit results by filters in a sidebar or a text term.