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Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours

Posted by kdawson on from the stolen-moments dept.

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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  1. Wait... by Foozy · · Score: 4, Informative

    it was PLAYABLE?? Oh Damn!

  2. Re:Wasted? - RTFA by Omnifarious · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you read the article, the person who wrote it preemptively replies to the assessment with exactly that observation, except even better since it's backed up by data.

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  3. Thats nothing- how much time to dissasemble it? by acomj · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone seems to have taken a pac man rom and figured out how the game works. How the different ghosts move and follow you to why you can sometimes "miss" a ghost.

    Facinating read... oddly hosted on someone's personal comcast account.

    http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html

    Take your time...

  4. Sorry to be pedantic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Begs the question doesn't it?

    No, it doesn't beg the question; however, it does raise the question. An example of begging the question would be: God exists because we can see the order in His creations. By starting with the premise that there is order in God's creations, we can prove that God exists. Another example is anti-abortionist signs stating "murder is wrong." By starting with the premise that abortion is murder, they conclude that abortion is wrong. When a conclusion relies on the validity of a premise set in the question or statement, it's said to be begging the question.

    Raising the question is something else entirely.

  5. Re:Yum, numbers are tasty by Samah · · Score: 2, Informative

    Begs the question doesn't it?

    No, it doesn't!
    http://begthequestion.info/

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