According to my Google Currency Calculator app, that translates to approximately $14.38 USD.
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Submitted 6 months ago by trespasser69@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
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Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 6 months ago
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Best I can do is tree-fiddy
expatriado@lemmy.world 6 months ago
they could just go for googol dollars
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Totally not a joke-country you guys.
Totally normal.Red_October@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They didn’t start with that fine, it was just compounding interest
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.
And regardless, Russia can’t block Google’s operations in Russia because Google isn’t operating in Russia since the war. Russia is trying to fire Google when Google quit 2 years ago.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
To everyone saying “this isn’t possible for Google to pay” really need to take a step back and realize that there’s always a way.
Given the amount of money we’re talking, it would only take a tiny fraction of that money for Google to deliver a series of small asteroids directly to Russia. Depending on the asteroid, and the conversion rates, Russia might consider the debt paid after a single delivery.
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
asteroid in leui of cash
riskable@programming.dev 6 months ago
Meh. This is but a fraction of what the big media companies think the world owes them for piracy.
KillerTofu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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?
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 6 months ago
20 Decillion
Brokkr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
2 x 10^34 for those people who like to use numbers to represent numbers in a sane way.
residentmarchant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Being fined by Russia is actually a positive stamp of approval in my book!
cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it’s 20 decillion.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
All made up, just like the reason for invading Ukraine
TheRaven@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Maybe they meant rubles. I think I may find that value in my couch.
1984@lemmy.today 6 months ago
It’s an actual court doing this… Lol.
ceenote@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is it, though?
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Well, a russian one. So not really but ehhhh
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So, they do control whatever assets Google had within Russia - article said a closed up office, and 200 remaining employees laid off, to get them entirely out of the country
If they do attempt to look for more assets to seize, they’ll pretty quickly run up against any other country saying “were their sanctions at the time?”
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Oh wow, it was that easy all the time to fix a country’s economy? Why did no one think of that before?
finkrat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was going to say Russia must love humiliating themselves but I guess this is painfully obvious the past 2 years
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
n3cr0@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It is not only more Rubles than currently exist, but more money than currently exists in any currency 😂
db2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
According to the Article:
Google in Russia has been inactive since 2022 after the search giant effectively pulled out of the country following Putin’s special military operation.
Goun@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
What you don’t need Google to access internet
n3cr0@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, but users with basic knowledge don’t even get the difference between a web browser and a search engine. Shutting down Google looks like a perfect “simple” explanation for a general digital lockdown.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why does the article keep referring to Google as “The Chocolate Factory?”
kautau@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The Register has been referring to Google as The Chocolate Factory for almost 10 years. As of why, probably because of google’s confectionary named Android releases, which they stopped at Android 10
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe because their company produces pure shit?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
just tell them it’s in the mail, google.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Im picturing them sending “cash” with the amount written in comic sans.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 months ago
RT broke a bunch of YouTube rules and should have been banned too.
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
virtucon alone is worth at least $20 decillion
667@lemmy.radio 6 months ago
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 6 months ago
April 1st came early
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And they only stopped writing zeros only because there was no more space on their paper form.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Imagine how much they’ve robbed from USA.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For monopolistic behavior, right?
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 6 months ago
1000010459
Comedy gold.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Wonder if this is just the website not being able to cut the number in half, or whether they did this on purpose
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 6 months ago
Or do. It’s not like people care if he breathes.
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
On my phone website fits the screen & appears normal, scrolling right reveals rest of the monies
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yepyep, did the same on mine, I just zoomed the page out.
Honestly, really hope they did this on purpose, although I’ve seen plenty of cases where someone forgot to scale the text to Mobile and it went careening off-screen.