It took me a month to solve — Why chatgpt doesn't have a search, and i open sourced it!

siv-io — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:59:39 +0000

The worst part about using AI sites - they don't have a freakin search, not even a simple keyword search

Why? God knows why.

Claude and perplexity still have a pretty basic keyword search, chatgpt doesn't at all

I've seen people complain for it on forums and reddit but I still don't know why they've chosen not to have that one simple feature

I got extremely fustrated with this - had to go through entire day's history just to find one response

it gets worse if it's a old chat and even worse if you are
like me and use 6 different AI sites -
i don't even know where i made the search

Decided to built a solution myself (says every dev)

Thought it would be pretty easy but man it took me a whole month

Here's how i fixed it -

it's a chrome extension that indexes your chats once you install
does some magic and converts your chats into numbers (embeddings)
then stores them in your local database (indexDB)

you can then make a search across all the supported sites (chatgpt, claude and perplexity for now) and it'll find the most similar chats as per your query

not just keyword match - it finds contextually related chats from your query

and i just open sourced it - https://github.com/siv-io/Index-AI-Chat-Search

let me know what you think
also lemme know if you want me to do a deep dive on how i built it

Forem: siv-io

It took me a month to solve — Why chatgpt doesn't have a search, and i open sourced it!