I tried using SearchTogether and found it to be too slow. Entering keywords, chatting etc takes a lot of time. I'm using WinXp SP2, 1.6 GHz core 2 duo with 2GB RAM. Can you suggest any means to speed up the performance. Also the GUI doesn't contain the recommendation, page specific metadata features and the features available are not matching the palces in GUI mentioned in http://research.microsoft.com/~merrie/papers/searchtogether.pdf Can you suggest something for this? Are there different