Abstract: A method of associating information with a portal in a computing system includes receiving at a server a markup of a web page to be rendered at a portal layer; analyzing, at an analysis layer including an analysis engine, the semantic content of the markup; injecting the markup into its Document Object Model (DOM) via JavaScript logic to wrap information pieces into semantic tags in a semantic layer; connecting to a database to track all occurrences of semantically tagged information pieces and user-generated annotation; and rendering the markup to a user, the rendered markup including background information related to the semantically tagged information pieces.