This is correct on an order of magnitude no single person can really wrap their brains around. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) made $121 billion in 2025. Not gross revenue—net profits (source). This “fine” is about 0.1% of what the execs and shareholders take home. That cost, in their revenue, wouldn’t register as any change within their accounting.

To call it a “rounding error” would be a huge exaggeration.

The truth is: if you have wealthy people asking if a bubble is real, and their friends who benefit from their investment deny it, the bubble it is real.

Damn Paul, from downtown!

Exactly. You know what is frictionless?

1. I type in “Amazon.com”(or any of a dozen different shopping platforms) in my browser
2. I use the site’s search bar to look up the item I want
3. I see which the suits my needs best out of the results
4. I click “buy now”

I’m sorry OpenAI, but there’s really no realistically better way to shop for things online.