Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours

The folks at Rescue-Time, who make software that helps you (and companies) figure out how you spend your online time, did a modest calculation based on their user base and concluded that Google's playable PAC-MAN doodle cost the world over 4.8 million person-hours of productivity last Friday. "Google PAC-MAN consumed 4,819,352 hours of time (beyond the 33.6M daily man hours of attention that Google Search gets in a given day). $120,483,800 is the dollar tally, if the average Google user has a cost of $25/hr. (note that cost is 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 six weeks of their time." Also, Google made the doodle permanent.

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Re:Competition

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I've got an idea, how about you get the hell out of other peoples children's heads.

They'll draw whatever reality looks like to them, not what some creep wants to manipulate them into thinking to suit said creeps cult like political agenda / religion.

In boring old reality 90% of firefighters are men, ergo drawing firefighters as men is the rational thing for a child to do. If a child draws a female firefighter purely because of mental manipulation from adults they have been indoctrinated against reality and then we end up with more people like you....

Oh, I get it.