We Spent 4,819,352 Hours on Google PAC-MAN
Google launched it's PAC-MAN Doodle on Friday morning and all of us groaned, "There goes a morning of work." We all assumed our productivity would take a hit, but how many hours did the world spend playing PAC-MAN on Friday?
RescueTime, a company that makes tools for businesses eager to understand how they spend their time put together some calculations based on how much time the average user spends on Google versus how much they spent on Google on Friday.
RT took the amount of time its 11,000 users on a regular, PAC-MAN-less Friday and compared it to the amount of time spent on Google on the Friday just gone by. The result? People spent more than half a minute more on Google this past Friday than on any other Friday. RescueTimes users spend, on average about four and a half minutes on Google, so adding an extra 35 seconds doesn't really seem like a big deal.
However, when you consider Google had more than 500,000,000 visitors on Friday (according to Wolfram Alpha), that's an exta 4,819,352 hours spent on Google. Sure, not everyone played PAC-MAN and a lot of those 500,000,000 visitors were probably just there to search and move on, but that number is big enough that even if you say half of everyone on Google on Friday didn't play, that's still nearly 2.5 million hours (2,409,676 if you want to be precise).
RescueTime estimates the dollar tally to be somewhere around the $120 million mark. That's if the average Google user has a cost of $25 per hour (cost being 1.3 – 2.0 X pay rate).
"For that same cost, you could hire all 19,835 google employees, from Larry and Sergey down to their janitors, and get 6 weeks of their time," blogs RescueTime.
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Kewl. Its not a paid little game
yeah. its free and fun! FUN i tell you.
35 seconds each?
Imagine how much money could be saved if bathroom breaks were banned!
Stupid statistic is stupid
Even if half of people didn't play it, a lot of us played more than 35 seconds =)
Now get Crysis up and running.
Google effectively helped waste over 7 (effective) lifetimes of 75 years!
....oh well, Youtube is more evil in that sense.
Who cares! Let me go play one more level.
I played a couple of times, it was easier on the Atari with the joystick.
I played a couple of times, it was easier on the Atari with the joystick.
Very little can replace the venerable 2600.
Google effectively helped waste over 7 (effective) lifetimes of 75 years!....oh well, Youtube is more evil in that sense.
They are amateurs. I've already wasted more than half of one lifetime, and I'm only one person.
hmmm...i went on there just to try it, but i wasn't getting paid to game. wish i was
Wow look at those graphics awesome almost as good as pong, this was cool in 1982 on the 2600 but I'd rather play BF BC2 at 2560 x 1600 res thanks!
I wish I made 25 dollars/hour
yeah. its free and fun! FUN i tell you.
So much for Crysis.
I wish I made 25 dollars/hour
I used to!
I wish I made 25 dollars/hour
i wish i didn't spend 25 dollars/hour on some nights :\
On the other hand, if you consider the productivity increase provided by Google in terms of rapid access to information, the $120 million spent on PAC MAN is inconsequential.
I wish I made 25 dollars/hour
I think they are saying that's the average cost of an employee. An employee costs their company more $ per hour than their pay rate.
Well played sir.
i thought it was cool so i made it my homepage FOR EVA!
for Eva?.Adams wife?...
HAH! I knew it, and now the markets are tanking, exactly as I predicted. Everything is falling into place. *evil laugh*
Guess what's gonna happen when Doom or Crysis hit their 30th birthday...
Google effectively helped waste over 7 (effective) lifetimes of 75 years!....oh well, Youtube is more evil in that sense.
Everybody knows that Google is evil. There is no need to repeat it all the time.
What I found funny were the people calling into my shop complaining of the computers being infected, meanwhile we hear the pacman music in the background.
Guess what's gonna happen when Doom or Crysis hit their 30th birthday...
Crysis in HTML(add ridiculous number here), on the front page of Google after 30 years?
That'd be pimp. How about Crysis Wars though?
What I found funny were the people calling into my shop complaining of the computers being infected, meanwhile we hear the pacman music in the background.
Lol............Lmao............
And they call google evil...................
I just spend $25 just reading and commenting on this article alone.
Im going back to Google Pacman site. bye.
The part I hate about this article and many other one's around the web is since google announced that they would permanently have a webpage to this game everybody is talking about lost productivity of work...which in turn gives my I.T. dept and many others I.T. dept around the country the chance to block the site....who gives a $hit about statistics....let us play in peace!!
Oh please, why doesn't Google just add a counter that adds seconds to a web server. Then those seconds are collected and added to each other.
Perfectly doable.
Even if half of people didn't play it, a lot of us played more than 35 seconds =)
Yep! I covered a couple of people who didn't play on friday!
I'm sure the amount of productivity lost to Google's PAC-MAN pales in comparison to the amount lost reading tech articles...