You have to admire his accomplishment, but the presentation grates on me -- the fonts are pretty unreadable and it all seems very rough around the edges. Even if the standard were up to Google's, I wouldn't use it for that reason alone.
Interestingly the fonts are actually more readable to me than google's (slightly bigger, slightly more kerning). Perhaps he's only testing on linux - and I'm also on linux.
So everything you dislike about the site could be fixed by a one-time contract from a good graphic/UI designer? Sounds like a compliment to me.
The presentation also makes scanning incredible hard. The results look cramped. Ugh.