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...

August 25, 2023

Embedding Swirl in your application

Software companies can reduce churn and increase engagement by adding generative AI. However, challenges such as lack of data, security concerns, and integration with existing processes can make it difficult. When successfully embedded, AI can create differentiation and unlock various use cases. Swirl, an open-source tool released on GitHub under Apache 2.0, allows for quick...

August 24, 2023

Easily Swirl generative insights from your data and ChatGPT

Generative AI is exciting because it provides what users want: answers, not documents. And more than that, expertise. Large language models like ChatGPT show expertise in many tasks, even simple programming ones. There are limitations, ChatGPT only knows information before September 2021. ChatGPT thinks the current “state of the art” in search consists of Pagerank, Semantic...

August 15, 2023

Giving you time in a Swirl

It is understood that “Any company that creates more than $10 billion in shareholder value does one of two things: extend time (more time, saving time) or enhance time.” Time is priceless. Swirl recently released version 2.5 featuring a performance benchmark showing a median search time of ~3 seconds across 12 sources. In layman’s terms,...

August 7, 2023

Swirl 2.5 Released

Team Swirl is thrilled to announce the General Availability of Swirl 2.5! The theme for this release is performance. Configured with 12 SearchProviders, Swirl 2.5 supports up to 15 queries/second on a Standard F16s v2 server (16 vcpus, 32 GiB memory) with a median response time of 3 seconds. Swirl 2.5 also includes SearchProviders for...

July 24, 2023

Swirl 2.1 Released!

Team Swirl is delighted to announce General Availability of Swirl Metasearch 2.1! This version features the new Galaxy Search Interface with Dark Mode: It also includes numerous refinements such as: Version 2.1 also comes with SearchProviders for GitHub Code, Commits, Pull Requests, and Issues. Please visit our Release 2.1 page in the public repo for full details! Search Developers,...

June 21, 2023

Video – Swirl SearchProviders Deep Dive

One of the most important elements of Swirl Metasearch is the SearchProvider. In this video, Erik Spears and Sid Probstein from Swirl take a good look at SearchProviders. Some of the details covered in the video include: SearchProviders also contain: Although SearchProviders are stored in the Swirl configuration database, they can be viewed and edited...

June 12, 2023

Video – Introducing Swirl Metasearch 2.0 – Enterprise Ready

Curious about Metasearch? Want to know how Swirl works? And why it turns out to be such a game-changer in the post-pandemic, “really in cloud now” era? Here’s a new video that covers it all. This video explains: It’s difficult to cover all of Swirl’s capabilities in such a short time. One of the most...

June 7, 2023

Why Metasearch Matters to Today’s Enterprise

Curious about Metasearch and why your company should be using it to solve cross silo search problems? In this video Sid Probstein, creator of Swirl Metasearch, explains why it represents a game changer for the enterprise! In this video, Sid addresses a number of modern information challenges – from information overload and having too many tabs open, to the reality that...

May 31, 2023

Swirl Metasearch Features

Check out this short video in which Sid Probstein, creator of Swirl Metasearch, explains the main features of Swirl. This video goes by very quickly. Sid takes time to highlight a couple of key points: Here are a few things Sid left out: For more information, check out the Swirl User Guide. Search Developers, Data Engineers...