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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What is Enterprise Search?

February 9, 2024

What is Enterprise Search?

Imagine all your business data – every file, email, and database entry – trapped in separate rooms. Searching means running from room to room. Frustrating, right? Federated enterprise search builds a hallway connecting everything; one search box to find it all. How Enterprise Search Transforms Your Workday Swirl: One Search Box To Find It All...

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What Is Federated Search?

February 8, 2024

What Is Federated Search?

In modern enterprises, data is often dispersed across various repositories, including applications, databases, data warehouses, and silos. Traditionally, consolidating this data into a single repository for re-indexing has been the go-to method for comprehensive searchability. However, this approach can be both costly and introduce new security vulnerabilities.  Users seek efficient solutions that allow them to...

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What is Unified Search?

February 8, 2024

What is Unified Search?

What is Unified Search? Unified Search combines results from multiple sources (databases, documents, systems) into a single searchable interface, providing relevant and security-aware results in a consistent format. With one query, users can access multiple repositories, streamlining the search process and enhancing productivity.  This approach allows users to perform a single query to retrieve information...

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What Is A Metasearch Engine?

February 8, 2024

What Is A Metasearch Engine?

A metasearch engine is an information retrieval solution that connects to multiple search engines to fetch results for the same query and then produce a blended result set. Metasearch engines take a query from a user and immediately distribute the query across search engines for results. After gathering the data, the metasearch engine ranks and...

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Towards Secure AI and Enterprise Search: What Swirl Version 3.2.0 Brings to Your Business

February 2, 2024

Towards Secure AI and Enterprise Search: What Swirl Version 3.2.0 Brings to Your Business

It’s Friday 1st February, 2023. And Swirl releases version 3.2.0. With this, we continue our march towards a secure, tight, air-gapped enterprise-grade unified search and data access platform, which operates within your enterprise firewall, and with your private enterprise large language model.Swirl is available in Azure with a 30-day free Trial. Check out this page...

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Enhancing Unified Search: Reference Architecture for Real-Time, AI-Powered Enterprise Search

January 30, 2024

Enhancing Unified Search: Reference Architecture for Real-Time, AI-Powered Enterprise Search

The API is King According to CloudZero[1], most enterprise workflows are now executed in the cloud as of 2024. The average department uses ~87 applications, and the average large company has 371. Most of these services have published and documented APIs and use standards-based authentication mechanisms like bearer tokens or OAUTH2. Many also support login...

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Reinventing Enterprise Search with Swirl Enterprise Search’s Automatic Payload Mapper

January 29, 2024

Reinventing Enterprise Search with Swirl Enterprise Search’s Automatic Payload Mapper

Swirl’s team is working hard to create a simple, safe, and user-friendly way for businesses to search for information. We’re creating a secure, quick solution that uses top-notch technology to help you get more done at work which is Swirl Search.With this, we are excited to share that we now have the new AutomaticPayloadMapperResultProcessor. The...

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CEO QuickStart: bringing AI-enabled search to the enterprise

January 18, 2024

CEO QuickStart: bringing AI-enabled search to the enterprise

Summary Across industries, organizations are integrating AI solutions, whether through partnerships with consulting firms or technology vendors. A select few have discovered unique applications of AI, providing them with a competitive edge they prefer to keep under wraps. Meanwhile, others are still in the exploratory phase, seeking their unique applications. A common concern is the...

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Swirl’s First 9 Months: A Journey Through the AI Universe

January 18, 2024

Swirl’s First 9 Months: A Journey Through the AI Universe

As we say farewell to 2023, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on Swirl’s journey over the past nine months and celebrate the launch of Swirl on Azure Marketplace for private cloud deployment. Swirl provides a secure platform for users to conduct simultaneous searches across all their applications, content repositories, and data for efficient...

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