The British Library has today revealed its new public facing website, which dominated by a new search engine.

According to the BL the new site has been developed following research amongst users, who reported that they were finding it difficult to find content on the site. Now the simple search engine searches the site's 10,000 web pages, 13 million records from within the catalogues of the BL, the Collect Britain picture library and the pay as you go journals database.

The site is very clean in design, with a grey bar denoting the different departments of the BL that a user may need to use. Search results are delivered in a series of coloured boxes according to whether they are a web page, record from the catalogue or journal article. Overall the site appears to be an improvement.