No Records Found Fallback Search

I recognize that this may be too custom for support here, but if someone can point me in the right direction, I’d be grateful.

When searching on the map, if there are no results, you get a “No results found” message.” I can edit the text in plugins > geodirectory > language.php:80, and of course I can style the css to the ends of the earth. However, I can’t figure out how I might be able to insert some html there.
[EDIT: I can just put the html in language.php! It works fine. ]

I’d like to replace the message with something like:

<p>No results found, adjust your criteria above or try a broader search:</p> <form role="search" method="get" action="#"><div><input type="text" placeholder="Search term"><input type="submit"></div></form>

Putting a search form or custom link in that field would be great.
(since the site search can actually find entries in any custom post type, it makes a good fallback for those searching for a listing in the wrong category…

Thanks! (Sometimes it questions answer themselves, you can close this request!!)
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