This document discusses universal search and leveraging corporate information across content sources. It addresses the challenges of early enterprise search applications, including poor user experiences and siloed searches. It advocates developing an information architecture and infrastructure focused on integrating metadata and search, rather than application-specific searches. This would make search a core element of the IT infrastructure and content strategy. The document contrasts distributed search, which searches individual systems, with universal search, which aims to provide transparent, high-performance access to all enterprise information through a single search interface. It provides contact information for the author to ask questions.