Russia has fined Google more money than there is in the entire world
A Russian court has ruled that Google must compensate for its block on Russian state media channels on YouTube with a fine so large it outranks the world's GDP.
A Russian court has ruled that Google must compensate for its block on 17 Russian state media channels broadcasting on YouTube to the tune of 2 undecillion roubles — that's a two followed by 36 zeros — or $US20 decillion (which is 33 zeros).
In dollar terms, Google is looking at something like $US20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or $US20 trillion trillion trillion.
In Australian dollars, that (roughly) equates to $31,210,773,462,863,364,000,000,000,000,000,000.00, according to the XE exchange rate calculator at the time of writing.
The figure is higher than all the money in the world combined, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be $110 trillion.
It's also higher than Google's value of $2 trillion — which, in any other instance, would be a large amount of money.
