1. A method of establishing personalized limits on a search responsive to a key word query to an enterprise search system, including: receiving an object types access history for a particular user; wherein the object types access history includes records of object types selected from search results returning multiple object types and records of object types selected via interfaces other than search results; and determining and storing in computer readable memory a personalized scope of object types; wherein the personalized scope of object types sets a limit on object types initially returned by an enterprise search system for the particular user in response to key word queries by the particular user that do not specify object types to search.