Last week, Google celebrated the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man by making the game playable from the main search page.
Well, time management software maker RescueTime crunched the numbers.
According to the company’s calculations, users spent a combined 4,819,352 hours on Google’s search page on May 23rd.
Now, assuming the average Google user’s time worth $25/h, that comes out to $120,483,800 in lost productivity.
All that said, calculations like this to tend to annoy me since they assume every single one of those people would have been doing something productive instead of playing Pac-Man.
Still some fun stats, though.
