Building a search is not that hard. But getting users is. As most of the people prefer using something that looks good, we should especially take care of the frontend design. The design should look kind of serious but featuring the current event's theme. This includes:
Choose a better font face (e.g. Lato) combined with the official font face
Use a double-sized logo for Retina devices. There are even some laptops out there having such a display
Use commonly used search engine design patterns from big players
Take a look at dribbble as we are not designers, but there are lots of them out there having great ideas we can adapt
Building a search is not that hard. But getting users is. As most of the people prefer using something that looks good, we should especially take care of the frontend design. The design should look kind of serious but featuring the current event's theme. This includes: