# Retain search results
**URL:** https://talk.observablehq.com/t/retain-search-results/5684
**Category:** Feedback
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/retain-search-results/5684 "2021-10-13T18:51:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kalmdown](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/kalmdown)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/retain-search-results/5684/1 "2021-10-13T18:51:59Z")
Often want to look at multiple of search results but each time I return to search it is cleared. Would either like search results as a panel on side or search results retained during session and I have to clear to change query.
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### Author:  [@tophtucker](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tophtucker)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/retain-search-results/5684/2 "2021-10-13T19:20:25Z")
I agree! You may know this, but fwiw — in the new search pop-up (visible on notebook pages in “Next”), you can now Cmd-Click (Ctrl-Click on Windows) to open results in new tabs without dismissing the results. This has helped me a lot, compared to Classic. If I’m gonna be referring to a ton of results I click “View all 972 results →”, though it then has to load all over again.
But your point stands. I’d love a persistent sidebar; we’ve sketched that before. Also just want search to be faster, which affects all other search ux, ha… 😇
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### Author:  [@tophtucker](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tophtucker)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/retain-search-results/5684/3 "2021-10-13T19:21:25Z")
(maybe my screenshot is too obvious but some people coming across this may not know what i mean by “the new search pop-up in Next” as opposed to the other one on our homepage etc…)
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### Author:  [@kalmdown](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/kalmdown)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/retain-search-results/5684/4 "2021-10-13T19:57:14Z")
I do right click to open multiple when I know that more are interesting…but I don’t always know that I should go back and look at more of them, and so would like persistent results.