Yeah the design could use some work. The search results are not compact - I only see 1 result without scrolling, not counting the related wikipedia link that apparently has no description.

I don't particularly like that it seems to be a column constrained to 550px width, instead of being responsive and taking advantage of greater widths.

to the author of the site, if you're not really into design/css, take a look at tailwindcss, it makes it fairly easy to produce a minimal amount of css that is responsive.

How so? It's intuitive and super fast. I whish there were more websites with such a simple UI.

Some people like a flashy UI, the modern look is important for them. It's ok to have aesthetic preferences, let's not pretend we don't all have them.

In the end, it's a niche search engine I've made, the intended audience is the long tail. It just isn't for everyone, and if it was for everyone, it probably would be lesser for it.

I'm glad you aren't trying to please anyone. I'd like a return to an internet with fewer colors, gadgets and gizmos, custom fonts, TypeKit, JavaScript requirements, and so on. Most of the time I'm reading articles, so just give me more text and less fluff!

I like the UI.

it's too "uncompact". Font size too big and could use a bit more horizontal space.

I find it comfortable to use at 60% zoom level

Ironic comment, considering that this is a search engine to weed out sites with awful UIs. This gives us exactly what we need in a search UI - no more, no less - in a clean and intuitive way.

What makes you find the user interface awful?

it is litterally a search website with a text box for a search term and a button to do the search.

The page isn't prompting for cookie preferences, asking to allow notifications, popping up a mailing list or coupon half way do the page, playing a full page video with sound, or load 97million lines of javascript. I'd say its pretty much perfect.

Huh. I think it's a great UI. What did you not like about it?