[themacguffinman]

I doubt it, because 1/3 of Google's spend per user isn't enough when you can't attract many paying users in the first place, because you would charge much more than $9/mo, because almost no one wants to pay for a search engine so your revenue will have to make up for those people too, and then even fewer people are willing to pay more than $9/mo for 1/3 of the quality.

And then I'd guess the 20 remaining users will still complain because 1999 Google is a nostalgic memory impossible to recreate without a 1999 internet for a 1999 self to live in and has little to do with raw search quality.