diff --git a/ServiceLayer/Sources/ServiceLayer/Services/SearchService.swift b/ServiceLayer/Sources/ServiceLayer/Services/SearchService.swift
index f63c753..8743642 100644
--- a/ServiceLayer/Sources/ServiceLayer/Services/SearchService.swift
+++ b/ServiceLayer/Sources/ServiceLayer/Services/SearchService.swift
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ extension SearchService: CollectionService {
     public func request(maxId: String?, minId: String?, search: Search?) -> AnyPublisher<Never, Error> {
         guard let search = search else { return Empty().eraseToAnyPublisher() }
 
+        if (search.query.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces).isEmpty){
+            return Empty().eraseToAnyPublisher()
+        }
+        
         return mastodonAPIClient.request(ResultsEndpoint.search(search))
             .flatMap { results in contentDatabase.insert(results: results).collect().map { _ in results } }
             .handleEvents(receiveOutput: { resultsSubject.send(($0, search)) })