Pac-Man Google Doodle Cost $120m In Lost Productivity

Here’s something for a Google engineer to be proud of: the Google Doodle commemorating the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man cost the world an estimated $120m in productivity, the BBC reports.

The statistics came from time-tracking company RescueTime, which says that its 11,000 users typically spend four minutes a day on the Google homepage. On the day the Google logo was replaced by a playable version of Pac-Man, that time rose to 4 minutes thirty.

That’s not a huge amount, but extrapolate those extra thirty seconds across Google’s 504 million users daily and that adds up to 4.8

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