prevent list from being populated when no filter is applied

I have a list page, and its data source is a spesefic object we have created.  above the list table there is a search element. What i want is when there is no filter applied the list table should be empty and, when any filter is applied then it should show only the matching resluts. How can i achieve this? What now happening is it is showing all of the existing records, but when i wanted to set up a business rule I could not find any option to access search element.