Secrets of the hated corporate intranet

mootothemax · on March 16, 2010

We spent $860,000 rebuilding our intranet. The most popular page on the intranet is still the cafeteria menu.

Is it really that surprising that people eat?

JacobAldridge · on March 16, 2010

Agreed. Running some basic math, let's say the business has four divisions of equal size and one cafeteria. Every single person might be viewing the homepage for their division, but only 3 in 10 view the cafeteria menu; that means the division pages get 25% of traffic, and the cafeteria menu gets 30%, is still be 'most popular', but only because it appeals to the widest base.

ShabbyDoo · on March 16, 2010

The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most popular activities might be more telling.

gordonr · on March 16, 2010

"the number one search term on our intranet is 'Google'"

Awesome.

whatusername · on March 17, 2010

Doesn't really surprise me. (I wonder what % of searches on google are for google?)

:) My firefox plugin to search the intranet (originally one I built myself - now just the supplied one), means that I occasionally do very strange intranet searches. (And very strange google searches at points)

snprbob86 · on March 16, 2010

Clever :-)

The about page suggests that this is a viral marketing scheme for http://www.thoughtfarmer.com/ -- looks interesting.

zaidf · on March 16, 2010

We spent $860,000 rebuilding our intranet...

That's where you went wrong.

jrockway · on March 16, 2010

That's one team of Java developers for one year.

Big companies are big, and this kind of money is pocket change, especially when their Intranet has 300,000 users.

emilis_info · on March 16, 2010

Thank you for this link. Brigtened my day. I was an intranet webmaster at a bank for some time...