diff --git a/app/templates/components/large-search.hbs b/app/templates/components/large-search.hbs
index 16d4221a..23a03c18 100644
--- a/app/templates/components/large-search.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/components/large-search.hbs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     {{/search-result-set}}
   {{else if search.isRunning}}
     {{dot-spinner}}
-  {{else}}
+  {{else if (and search.performCount query.length)}}
     <h4 class="result-info test-result-info">No results for "{{query}}"</h4>
   {{/if}}
 </div>
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 73ac8343..8880e30d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
     "ember-router-scroll": "~0.3.0",
     "ember-sanitize": "^2.0.2",
     "ember-source": "~2.14.1",
+    "ember-truth-helpers": "^1.3.0",
     "emberx-select": "^3.1.0",
     "glob": "^7.1.1",
     "http-proxy": "^1.15.2",