OK, I'll be the first to admit that our current search engine is not up to snuff. In fact, it is down right pathetic at times. Don't blame our tech staff for that. In fact, give them lots of credit for devising a new site search that really delivers for visitors.

The new site search allows you to sort by date, relevance, section, headline. It also gives you the option of only seeing search results for video clips or images. And you can quickly search for content published in the past day, week, month or year.

The results pages themselves are dramatically improved. We borrowed heavily from the familiar and popular Google design, and we added thumbnail images if visual assets are present inside on the stories returned in the search.

And unlike our current search engine, this one indexes section fronts, special content pages and other types of content other than just stories.

So try the new site search, even if you aren't having trouble finding content. We're confident you will find it useful when visiting WRAL.com.