Reeeeeeviewah!

[BigAlReturns]

Hi guys and gals, been working on site the last couple of nights, looking for some opinions. It's a search engine of sorts, albeit it one that just generates a query then throws it at Google! The design is intentionally simplistic, but if you think it goes too far this way then let me know!
What I'd really like to know is how easy and intuitive you found it to use, and what else you think would be a good idea to add. Also, whether you would ever use a site like this, or if I should stop wasting effort on it!
You can find it at http://www.dfucs.com (it's an acronym - Download Files Using Clever Searches).

Ta very muchly.

[ryanhellyer]

Cool! I always need to go look up the search strings for that type of thing.

Simple is good, although simple does not necessarily need to equal bland which is where your current design is heading. I'm not convinced that DFUCS is a good name as it could be difficult to remember.

If you were particularly cheeky, you could cover up the Google branding at the top with some prudent use of CSS. Or would that be breaking the Google TOS?

[BigAlReturns]

Thanks for the reply Ryan.
I take what you say about bland design, it does need some work. I personally like the layout at the moment, but I think injecting some colour might be the way forward. Definitely in the logo(if you can call it that!)
Thanks also for the idea about hiding Googles logo. I think their TOS are probably well and truly broken whatever I do, but they don't really have any legal standpoint as I'm just displaying their own page! In the end, I had a quick look at their results page, and they have a div with an id containing the results, so I could just change the URL to add the anchor on the end, and the results look like my sites!
As to the name, well, it was a "clever" acronym I thought up! I'm not very good at the whole branding thing, do you have any ideas?