Google's celebration of Pac-Man's 30th anniversary was fun, enabling people to play Pac-Man on their main search page, either as a one- or two-player game. And people certainly took advantage of the opportunity, spending approximately 4,819,352 hours on the game alone. The result is approximately $120 million in productivity lost, in one day.
Thankfully, Google tossed out the logo with pretty low “perceived affordance” – they put an “insert coin” button next to the search button, but I imagine most users missed that. In fact, I’d wager that 75% of the people who saw the logo had no idea that you could actually play it. Which the world should be thankful for.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by nmiller.
http://www.google.com/pacman/
Imagine all the lost productivity during sex and raising children? Is playing pac man with your child a bonding experience or a waste of time?
Seriously.. strap my corpse to the MACHINE until I rot away....
Just be sure to rot away on your own time, ok?
Maybe they were keeping track of a loss in Farmville productivity.
No Google search could be completed until a level of pacman was completed (without fail).
You want to talk about an unproductive day...