Meh. This is but a fraction of what the big media companies think the world owes them for piracy.
And the fact that Google didn’t pay them more money than exists in the world will be why Russia blocks Google’s operations in the country and seizes every bit of property they can get their hands on that they say was even vaguely related to Google’s operations. They didn’t even bother with a realistic number, because in the end they don’t really care who does or doesn’t believe them.
Comedy gold.
Wonder if this is just the website not being able to cut the number in half, or whether they did this on purpose
The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.
Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.
I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.
To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that’s what’s happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).
Maybe the boss said, “Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post.”
Or do. It’s not like people care if he breathes.
they could just go for googol dollars
Maybe they meant rubles. I think I may find that value in my couch.
I was going to say Russia must love humiliating themselves but I guess this is painfully obvious the past 2 years
It’s an actual court doing this… Lol.
Well, an “actual” court asterisked by the modifier that it’s an actual russian court. For whatever that’s worth.
Is it, though?
Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow
Well to be fair, I do think it’s plausible that one day Google will indeed control all the money in the world.
What’s that number in words? Sure. I could use Google, but they just got fined by Russia for $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 so can they really be trusted?
2 x 10^34 for those people who like to use numbers to represent numbers in a sane way.
Being fined by Russia is actually a positive stamp of approval in my book!
20 Decillion
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it’s 20 decillion.
They know this is impossible - even with their worthless currency. I guess they will soon provide their own services or they will revoke internet access from their citizens.
I guess they will soon provide their own services
Is Yandex not state run? It does everything, the way Musk wants Xitter to, and then some.
It is not only more Rubles than currently exists, but more money than currently exists in any currency 😂
What you don’t need Google to access internet
Yes, but users with basic knowledge don’t even get the difference between a web browser and a search engine. Shutting down Google seems like a perfect “simple” explanation for a general digital lockdown.
You’re describing users without basic knowledge.
And they only stopped writing zeros only because there was no more space on their paper form.
