[Answer]-Django Admin change_list forcing search_form to reject given seach keywords

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You can’t override ModelAdmin.get_queryset() because it is used in the edit/delete views. So you have to inherit ChangeList class and override get_queryset() in it:

from django.contrib import messages
from django.contrib.admin.views.main import ChangeList

class MyChangeList(ChangeList):

    def get_queryset(self, request):
        queryset = super(MyChangeList, self).get_queryset(request)
        if not request.GET.get('q', ''):
            messages.add_message(request, messages.INFO, 'Start typing.')
            queryset = queryset.none()

        return queryset


class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    def get_changelist(self, request, **kwargs):
        return MyChangeList
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