![]() ![]() ![]() The estimates assume that employees goofing off on Pac Man would be working productively if the game was not available, when it's just as likely they'd find some other way to goof off. But even if they were done more rigorously, they'd still be baloney. For starters, even RescueTime admits that they're just back-of-the-envelope estimates. These kinds of calculations are fun, but they should be taken about as seriously as fortune cookies. Most people probably didn't realize the doodle was playable, RescueTime said. Imagine what you could build with that army of man power," RescueTime said. "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. ![]() Figuring user time costs $25 per hour, that comes to $120,483,800. RescueTime sampled its users and found that they spent 36 seconds more on on Friday, when the Pac-Man doodle was available.įiguring Google had 504.7 million users on a typical day (based on data from Wolfram Alpha), RescueTime calculated Google Pac-Man used 4.8 million hours of time, beyond the 33.6 million hours users typically spend on the search site. Users spend only 4-1/2 active minutes on Google per day, for 22 page views, or 11 seconds per page view. One last thing: be sure to say goodbye to your productivity.Under normal circumstances, people actually spend very little time on Google, RescueTime says. Last year, Google used Maps to create its own global Pokemon Challenge. In 2012, Google unveiled a version of Maps that rendered all locations with old-school, 8-bit graphics. This is not the first time Google has opened up Maps to video games. and San Francisco, and each time I got a different level corresponding to a part of the city. Select any city you want, then click the Pac-Man icon to start playing in a section of the city. When you go to, you'll notice two icons at the bottom left, one for Google Earth and the second for Pac-Man. In time for April Fools' Day tomorrow, Google is using Maps to pay tribute to a classic: Pac-Man. Try Google searches for "do a barrel roll" and "zerg rush" right now and see what we mean. Google has not been shy about professing its love for video games. Watch Video: Google Maps pulls off fun 'Pac-Man' April Fools' trick ![]()
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