Swirl
AI-powered metasearch across multiple data sources
Swirl is an open-source AI search platform that simultaneously queries many search engines, databases and enterprise sources, then unifies and reranks the results. It is self-hosted with Docker.
Key features
- Federated metasearch
- AI reranking
- Many connectors
- Self-hostable
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (3k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
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