SWIRL Blog

September 11, 2025

Future-Fit or Bust: Building an Enterprise That Can Actually Keep Up

If your processes still run on spreadsheets and email, you’re not digital. You’re pretending. Digital transformation isn’t measured by how many SaaS apps you’ve bought. It’s measured by how seamlessly your people, processes, and data can adapt to change. Most enterprises fail that test.

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...

May 22, 2023

Introducing: Swirl Metasearch 2.0

We are delighted to announce the general availability of Swirl Metasearch 2.0! This major leap forward in functionality makes it easier than ever to solve cross-silo Enterprise Search problems quickly and securely — without extracting or moving any data. Swirl Metasearch 2.0 features enterprise-grade OAUTH2 support plus pre-configured connectors to Microsoft 365 Outlook, OneDrive, Teams and...

April 18, 2023

Why I Created Swirl Metasearch

I’ve been fortunate to work in search a few times now. And I believe it continues to be the most human way of interacting with data. But search changes constantly; Brin and Page were chasing the Star Trek computer; they ended up with an ad engine. Search is tricky, and not just because of the...