Heceta is part of the ScrewPile suite of tools for building intelligent applications.

Why "Heceta?"

We like lighthouses, so Neddick is named after the famous Heceta Head Lighthouse.

Ok, but what does it do?

Heceta is a search engine that leverages all of the various bits of information from Neddick, Quoddy, and "Other" to provide better / deeper / more insightful search results than you can get from simple document content analysis. Intranet search in organizations is usually very poor, largely because page-rank type algorithms don't work well due to the lack of links between documents. But by supplementing the content analysis with scoring based on tags, social graph connections, activity-stream information, etc., and applying machine-learning / artificial-intelligence techniques Heceta can do a superior job of locating the knowledge and information a user needs. This is not, by the way, a totally novel idea. It's sometimes referred to as Social Search