Content searching for portals having secure content

Abstract

Searching content of a portal. The portal includes at least one portal page having a plurality of portal content elements at least one of which is a secure portal content element wherein each of the portal content elements is a portion of a portal page. Each secure portal content element is associated with a unique identifier, wherein the unique identifier is a uniform resource locator and is different than a uniform resource locator for the portal page. Each secure portal content element is indexed by a keyword. Search parameters and credentials are received from a user, and a preliminary result set satisfying the search parameters is generated. For each secure portal content element in the preliminary result set, the credentials and the unique identifier are used to determine whether the user is permitted to access that secure portal content element. The preliminary result set is used to generate a final result set. A result identification is presented to the user, identifying the secure portal content elements that are included in the final result set and which the user is permitted to access, with such secure portal content elements being distinguished from any secure portal content elements to which the user is denied access.