views exposed filter: Prevent a user from searching default Paceholder Text
@Bala You actually pointed me in the right direction by mentioning "placeholder", I have also added that word to the question, Thanks for the help, so i did more research since i wanted to avoid enabling 2 modules because of only one exposed filter (i have many modules enabled already), so adding this code to my theme's template.php file as per this comment worked perfectly for me:

&lt;?php
function yourtheme_form_alter(&amp;$form, &amp;$form_state, $form_id){
  if($form_id == "views_exposed_form"){
    if (isset($form['combine'])) {
            $form['combine']['#attributes'] = array('placeholder' =&gt; array(t('Find Professionals')));
    }
  }
}
?&gt;


For benefit of novices, "yourtheme" in the function should be replaced with the name of your theme, 'combine' is the name of my exposed filter (You Can find yours by right-clicking the form on firefox or google chrome and clicking "inspect element"). 

This solution works for drupal 7