Imagine how much google has robbed from USA.
virtucon alone is worth at least $20 decillion
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.
asteroid in leui of cash
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?
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it’s 20 decillion.
Being fined by Russia is actually a positive stamp of approval in my book!
2 x 10^34 for those people who like to use numbers to represent numbers in a sane way.
20 Decillion
April 1st came early
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.
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.
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.
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.
just tell them it’s in the mail, google.
Im picturing them sending “cash” with the amount written in comic sans.
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
I think it’s a CSS issue. Word wrapping won’t break apart the amount because it’s considered one “word.”
There are ways to address it though.
Source: I’m a full stack web application developer
I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.
Maybe the boss said, “Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post.”
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).
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.
Or do. It’s not like people care if he breathes.
On my phone website fits the screen & appears normal, scrolling right reveals rest of the monies
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.
they could just go for googol dollars
They’re doubling it every week, so a googol is only ~4 years off.
For monopolistic behavior, right?
It’s an actual court doing this… Lol.
Is it, though?
Well, a russian one. So not really but ehhhh
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?”
Oh wow, it was that easy all the time to fix a country’s economy? Why did no one think of that before?
I was going to say Russia must love humiliating themselves but I guess this is painfully obvious the past 2 years
And they only stopped writing zeros only because there was no more space on their paper form.