**Updated** Feature Request: Build Your Own Search Modes—Mid-Conversation ChatGPT That Obeys You 🧞‍♂️

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Idea:

Allow users to create and save customizable search modes right in the middle of a conversation, where they can instantly tell ChatGPT exactly what sources to search (forums only, a specific website, etc), and have only those sources saved as a reusable search mode—not the query or results—creating a personalized search experience they can use anytime

People would love this because it gives them total control over where information comes from, delivers more relevant results, saves time, and makes search perfectly tailored to them

Imagine this scene:

• You open ChatGPT and your perfect search is ready, exactly how you want it.
• No more sifting through irrelevant results—every click hits pure gold .
• Every other search engine? Obsolete.
• Total personalization. People are no longer chained to one-size-fits-all results. You decide the rules. Forums only? Blogs only? ChatGPT becomes YOUR world.

Once users taste a search experience they control, they’re hooked. Good luck getting them back to Google. With this idea, the internet is still infinite—but now it obeys you like a magical genie.

People have never had this power before. A world where search obeys you instantly, perfectly, and exactly the way you want it.

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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—with only your selected sources saved as the search mode (not the query or results)—stored in your personal Search Modes library . You can go to the library in settings and run searches anytime

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

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.