SWIRL Blog

July 22, 2025

Agentic Search—Your Antidote to Tool Chaos 

Technology companies love tools. Internal wikis, chat threads, versioned code, scattered docs, ephemeral insights—every system solves a problem, until it becomes one. Then the search begins. Your engineer needs a deployment script. Is it in Notion? Buried in a GitHub gist? Maybe in that shared Drive folder from last quarter? Good luck. Multiply that friction...

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Understanding Cosine Similarity: A Powerful Measure of Textual Resemblance

February 27, 2024

Understanding Cosine Similarity: A Powerful Measure of Textual Resemblance

Cosine similarity is a metric that measures how similar two entities (vectors) are irrespective of their size. Commonly used in high-dimensional positive spaces, it can be helpful in various applications, including data analysis, information retrieval, and understanding the relationship between documents in text processing.To understand cosine similarity, let’s first delve into the basics of trigonometry,...

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How Generative AI is Transforming Enterprise Search?

February 16, 2024

How Generative AI is Transforming Enterprise Search?

Enterprises today face an ironic challenge – drowning in data yet starved for insights. As information silos proliferate, locating the correct data at the right time grows increasingly complex. Generative AI promises to revolutionize enterprise search, empowering organizations to extract critical insights, foster innovation, and optimize decision-making. Unlocking Knowledge Through Contextual Understanding Powered by large...

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How swirl transforms enterprise search and information management

February 16, 2024

How swirl transforms enterprise search and information management

The modern enterprise sits atop a vast amount of data. Yet unlocking the value within remains an elusive quest for most organizations. Critical information resides in far-flung corners: structured databases, departmental silos, and scattered unstructured files. While this data holds immense potential, discovering the right insights often requires a tedious process of piecing together fragments...

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Understanding Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

February 15, 2024

Understanding Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to transform our world incredibly. The concepts of Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning are fueling an explosion of exciting possibilities, yet some clarification about how they relate and differ may persist. Let’s break down these powerful branches of AI to get a clearer picture. Generative AI Generative AI refers...

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What is Knowledge Management?

February 15, 2024

What is Knowledge Management?

Knowledge management (KM) is the process of creating, sharing, using, and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieving organizational objectives using the best knowledge.KM efforts typically focus on organizational objectives such as improved performance, competitive advantage, innovation, the sharing of lessons learned, integration, and continuous improvement...

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Understanding Semantic Similarity and its Impact on Information Retrieval

February 15, 2024

Understanding Semantic Similarity and its Impact on Information Retrieval

Semantic similarity measures how similar two pieces of text are in meaning rather than just the words used. It is a branch of artificial intelligence and natural language processing that deals with understanding the meaning of words and phrases.Semantic similarity is used in various applications, including information retrieval, machine translation, and sentiment analysis.This concept is...

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What is a Data Silo?

February 14, 2024

What is a Data Silo?

In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations generate an unprecedented amount of information. This data has immense potential, but sadly, it’s often locked away in isolated pockets known as “data silos.” Let’s explore what data silos are, their negative impacts, and how Swirl Search can help us break down these barriers for unified knowledge access and utilization....

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What is Search Relevancy?

February 14, 2024

What is Search Relevancy?

The sheer volume of enterprise data necessitates precision in search results. Search relevancy is the essential technique that filters through the information, presenting users with the most accurate and applicable content.But what exactly is search relevancy, and how do search engines like Google determine which results are most relevant to a particular query? Defining Search...

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What is a search index?

February 14, 2024

What is a search index?

A search index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations by providing quick lookups to the data records. It’s analogous to an index in a book that allows you to find the information quickly without reading through every page. In search engines, a search index is used to quickly find...

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