Intranet search engine that takes account of email data

摘要

The invention relates to an intranet search method which comprises: receiving an intranet search request; and in response to the intranet search request, returning as a part of search results, a link matching the intranet search request, wherein the intranet search includes searching the enterprise intranet and an enterprise email system. The link matching the intranet search request maybe in an email in the email system. The method may use a variety of methods for ranking the search results e.g., sources of the links, the position of the email sender, number of receivers of the emails referring to the links. The search results generating unit, in one embodiment, may include an email crawler 207, a meta information extracting unit 209 and a sorting and index computing unit 210.