Most news sites don’t generally pay much attention to developing internal search; though search, after navigation, is perhaps the important tool visitors use to find content.
And here, the quality of a news site’s internal search is an important factor and there’s no point in having search that offers no better results than Google does.
Often [...]

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen had in an Alertbox column last year said that "users hate change, so it’s usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually." 
The reason - users have spent long hours using a site, even the few mintues they spend adds up to a lot of user hours over months and [...]