[2] The company participated in Y Combinator’s incubator program and received investment from a number of prominent sources.

[5] They used some of these funds to expand into areas outside of site search, especially for knowledge bases, customer support and e-commerce.

Other features include drag and drop result customization, real-time analytics and adjustable weights.

Swiftype also introduced an artificial intelligence that interprets the queries and builds an "enterprise knowledge graph" from the data it accesses.

[8] Elastic powers Elasticsearch, a tool Swiftype had previously used to index and store their search content.