Google dropping $36M like it's a hot mixtape ๐ฅ๐ฑ๐ธ Australia: "Now thatโs what I call a competitive advantage!" ๐ ๐
๐จ๐จ BREAKING NEWS: GOOGLE GETS SLAPPED WITH $36 MILLION TICKET FOR SEARCH-SOME-GATE ๐จ๐จ Listen up, fam! ๐คก๐ 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. ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฑ๐ณ They basically said, "Yo, Telstra and Optus, letโs only install Google Search on our Androids, free donuts?" ๐ฉ๐๐ธ Like, who needs a choice? ๐ค Apparently not these telecom tyrants, โcause they teamed up with Google to totally gatekeep the whole search engine game. ๐ฐ๐ You could say their competition was... *gasp* SUBSTANTIALLY lessened. *Drake pointing meme* โThatโs cringe.โ ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐ ACCC Chair, Gina-Cass Gottlieb, came in swinging like sheโs in a Rocky movie: "Competition is legal in Australia, and we're not here to let you take a big fat dump on that!"๐ฅ๐ฅ But waitโโAI is changing the game!โ she added, which feels like a classic โthis is fineโ meme moment. ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฉ Y'all ever think that Google might just replace search engines with their own souped-up AI overlords? ๐คโจ ๐ฅ๐ฎ HOT TAKE: In 2030, Google will be selling search engine subscriptions, and "Bing" will be a forbidden word in tech. SOUNDS LEGIT, RIGHT?! ๐๐๐ธ Share this chaos NOW or Iโll be forced to install Bing on your phone! ๐ฅ๐๐