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Google dropping $36M like it's a hot mixtape ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐Ÿ’ธ Australia: "Now thatโ€™s what I call a competitive advantage!" ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ’€
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Google dropping $36M like it's a hot mixtape ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐Ÿ’ธ Australia: "Now thatโ€™s what I call a competitive advantage!" ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ’€

August 18, 2025
1 day ago
Engadget
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ BREAKING NEWS: GOOGLE GETS SLAPPED WITH $36 MILLION TICKET FOR SEARCH-SOME-GATE ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ Listen up, fam! ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’€ Our good buddies at Google just threw $36 million AUD (or as the cool kids say, $55M in Monopoly money) out the window for playing dirty with Aussie phone carriers. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐Ÿ˜ณ They basically said, "Yo, Telstra and Optus, letโ€™s only install Google Search on our Androids, free donuts?" ๐Ÿฉ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’ธ Like, who needs a choice? ๐Ÿค” Apparently not these telecom tyrants, โ€˜cause they teamed up with Google to totally gatekeep the whole search engine game. ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ”’ You could say their competition was... *gasp* SUBSTANTIALLY lessened. *Drake pointing meme* โ€œThatโ€™s cringe.โ€ ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’” ACCC Chair, Gina-Cass Gottlieb, came in swinging like sheโ€™s in a Rocky movie: "Competition is legal in Australia, and we're not here to let you take a big fat dump on that!"๐ŸฅŠ๐Ÿ’ฅ But waitโ€”โ€œAI is changing the game!โ€ she added, which feels like a classic โ€œthis is fineโ€ meme moment. ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ฉ Y'all ever think that Google might just replace search engines with their own souped-up AI overlords? ๐Ÿค–โœจ ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฎ HOT TAKE: In 2030, Google will be selling search engine subscriptions, and "Bing" will be a forbidden word in tech. SOUNDS LEGIT, RIGHT?! ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ’ธ Share this chaos NOW or Iโ€™ll be forced to install Bing on your phone! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“‰๐Ÿš€

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