Feature Request: Build Your Own Search Modes—Mid-Conversation ChatGPT That Obeys You 🧞♂️
OpenAI Developer Community
March 23, 2026
This Changes What “Search” Even Means… Into Pure Magic
Right now, search is mundane.
You type.
You scroll.
You refine.
You repeat.
Boring.
With this idea, search becomes something you create once—and it obeys forever
Imagine this:
You’re chatting normally with ChatGPT, joking, asking questions, casually exploring…
And then, like a wizard waving a wand, you say:
“Search only forums for this idea… and save it.”
POOF.
Instantly, it becomes a reusable search mode, stored in your personal Search library
From that moment on, you’re not just searching the web—you’re activating something you already designed
What this unlocks:
Search becomes persistent
One-time queries are gone.
You build a library of searches ready whenever you summon them
Conversations turn into magic
Every casual chat can create a permanent, useful search
Less repetition, more precision
Define it once, use it forever.
The internet obeys perfectly, every time
You control the rules
No more one-size-fits-all results.
Search bends exactly to your will
A new kind of experience
It stops feeling like a search engine.
It starts feeling like a personal genie assistant, delivering exactly the knowledge you want
People have never had this power before
To define and save searches in real time, mid-conversation, and have the internet obey like magic? That’s unheard-of, web-bending wizardry
It’s not just an improvement. It’s turning search into a personal, reusable, Internet-bending superpower
After experiencing this, going back to Google’s one-size-fits-all results would feel unthinkable
Every search you’ve created and saved mid-conversation? Perfect. Instant. Obeys your exact rules
Google? Boring. Ancient.
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