A great deal of current research in information retrieval has been detached from the users who could benefit from these technologies. Haystack's goal is to make the power of information retrieval available to the user in a form that is easy to use and adaptable to the user's individual needs. Anyone needing to navigate a large body of information, be it a collection of old email messages or a directory containing related engineering papers, can benefit from the powers of information retrieval.
Haystack gives the user a convenient interface to search their own corpora of knowledge.
In the future we plan to give Haystacks the ability to communicate and reference each other when answering queries.