SWIRL SEARCH 1.1 Now Available

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SWIRL SEARCH 1.1 Now available

SWIRL is the first open source Federated Search Engine! SWIRL makes it easy for search developers, data scientists and power users to search multiple search engine silos at once and quickly receive unified results without extracting and indexing anything...

Additions

🔹 New SearchProvider for Apache Solr - tested against 8.1

🔹 New SearchProvider for Northern Light's NLResearch.com service - subscription required

🔹 New Date Sort Mixer omits documents with unknown date_published

🔹 New SearchProvider for newsdata.io service - subscription required

Changes

🔹 Revised requests_get connector now supports most any json response by configuration

🔹 Google PSE SearchProvider revised to use requests_get

"query_mappings": "cx=some-google-pse-id,sort=date=DATE_SORT,start=RESULT_INDEX=PAGE",
"result_mappings": "link=url,htmlSnippet=body,cacheId,NO_PAYLOAD,searchInformation.totalResults=FOUND,queries.request[0].count=RETRIEVED,items=RESULTS"

🔹 Former Google opensearch connector retired

🔹 There are new query mappings DATE_SORT, RELEVANCY_SORT and PAGE, and new result mappings FOUND, RETRIEVED, RESULTS and RESULT now available for the requests_get connetor

🔹 Updated Round Robin and Stack mixers now use relevancy as primary sort

🔹 All mixed results now include swirl_rank, swirl_score, retrieved_total and links to rescore/re-run searches

Clone the Repo:

git clone https://github.com/sidprobstein/swirl-search/

Download the Repo

https://github.com/sidprobstein/swirl-search/releases/tag/v1.1

Documentation

🔹 Home
🔹 Quick Start
🔹 User Guide
🔹 Developer Guide
🔹 Object Reference
🔹 Admin Guide

Support

🔹 Create an Issue if something doesn't work, isn't clear, or should be documented - we'd love to hear from you!

🔹 Paid support and consulting are available... contact SWIRL for more information.