On the bright side, Google released a report Tuesday claiming Google generates $54 billion in economic activity for businesses, Web site publishers, and non-profits. In case you have some productivity left over, Google has made Pac-Man a permanent fixture of its Web site. In initial versions of the game, Firefox auto-played the sounds, even if Google was open in a background tab or window or hidden iframe. The Pac-Man game freaked out some Firefox users, who complained about the noise and music and worried that they were infected by a virus.
Also, the study fails to take into account the value of rest and play - just as an athlete performs better if he takes time out occasionally to relax and rehydrate, a knowledge worker performs better if she takes the occasional break during the day, and plays Pac-Man or looks at LOLcats or does something else to let the brain cool down. The estimates assume that employees goofing off on Pac Man would be working productively if the game was not available, when it's just as likely they'd find some other way to goof off. But even if they were done more rigorously, they'd still be baloney.
For starters, even RescueTime admits that they're just back-of-the-envelope estimates. These kinds of calculations are fun, but they should be taken about as seriously as fortune cookies. Most people probably didn't realize the doodle was playable, RescueTime said. Imagine what you could build with that army of man power," RescueTime said. "For that same cost, you could hire all 19,835 google employees, from Larry and Sergey down to their janitors, and get 6 weeks of their time. Figuring user time costs $25 per hour, that comes to $120,483,800. RescueTime sampled its users and found that they spent 36 seconds more on on Friday, when the Pac-Man doodle was available.įiguring Google had 504.7 million users on a typical day (based on data from Wolfram Alpha), RescueTime calculated Google Pac-Man used 4.8 million hours of time, beyond the 33.6 million hours users typically spend on the search site. Users spend only 4-1/2 active minutes on Google per day, for 22 page views, or 11 seconds per page view. Window.google=var i=document.getElementsByTagName("img") b=i.Under normal circumstances, people actually spend very little time on Google, RescueTime says. To see an example of this working, click here. Also, it does not work with the Prototype Javascript Library. I decided to pull together a quick embed code to allow people to do so, as long as Google keeps the files live.Ĭurrently, the sound is not working on the embed because Google has disabled it due to annoying users. People have been asking how they can embed the Google Pac Man Doodle on their web pages.
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