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November 20, 2025

The Confidence Economy: Don’t Be The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The problem is no longer lack of data. It’s no longer an inability to retrieve data. Today’s problem is knowing which data to trust. It’s like the sorcerer’s apprentice commanded the broomstick to bring buckets of bits instead of buckets of water, but the result is much the same: data, data everywhere, with no time to stop and think.

February 12, 2024

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?

Artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and one of the latest advancements is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This advancement boosts Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond their current limits by bridging the gap between machine-generated language and real-world information.RAG generates more accurate, contextually rich, and up-to-date responses, transforming our interactions with AI. This article will explore what...

February 12, 2024

Enterprise Search vs. Federated Search: Which Approach Suits Your Business?

Data resides in numerous, often isolated, repositories within the vast expanse of modern enterprises. Employees need streamlined ways to unearth the insights hiding within this sprawling landscape. That’s where enterprise and federated search offer distinct approaches to centralizing access and driving efficient information discovery. Let’s break down these search philosophies and how Swirl Search bolsters...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?

Enterprise Search vs. Federated Search: Which Approach Suits Your Business?

What is Enterprise Search?

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

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

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

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