The problem
Exponential growth of the intranet
- 1995 : 185 homepages-launched MSWeb
- 1997 : 2.2 million pages-MSWeb 3.0
- Today : 3.7 million pages-MSWeb 4.5
Content culture
- Distributed content creation & storage
- No top down publishing requirements
- Content from external sources, i.e. news.
- Metadata does not exist, or not consistent
Harder and harder to find information using any portal
- Improve searching and browsing
- “Float” the most sought after information to the top