SWIRL Blog

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.

October 1, 2023

Contribute to Swirl this Hacktoberfest 2023

We are happy to take part in Hacktoberfest’23. This year’s Hacktoberfest is going to be Swirl’s first Hacktoberfest. And the team is excited about it. What is in it for you? You get to contribute to Swirl. And as per Hacktoberfest’s Rules. If Swirl accepts your four pull requests between October 1 and October 31,...

September 28, 2023

Swirl 2.6 Released

Team Swirl is delighted to announce General Availability of Swirl 2.6! This release adds SearchProviders for ServiceNow, Hacker News and Google News. We’ve also validated Swirl on the latest stable Python version (3.11.5) and updated our Dockerfile image to the latest stable Debian release (Bookworm). Full details are here: https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search/releases/tag/v2.6.0 Interested in Enterprise support, solutions & hosted Swirl? Visit www.swirl.today

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...