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"We joked last week when Google changed its logo to a playable game of Pac-Man that the world's collective productivity would take a sharp plunge, but it turns out that's exactly what happened.\nThe blog for time management tool RescueTime did the math and determined that Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of time, or $120,483,800 in productivity.\nThe cost was determined by looking at how much time was spent on Google's homepage the day the Pac-Man logo was up (48 seconds) versus the average amount of time spent on other days (11 seconds) and multiplied by the number of visitors to the site that day (503,703,000).\nThe cost seems like a bit of a stretch, though. RescueTime assumed that the average Google user makes $25 per hour; that's considerably higher than median income in Internet-connected nations. Also, you probably can't assume that everyone who visited the site Friday was on the clock at work.\nIf you haven't wasted time at work playing Google Pac-Man already, you still have a chance to add to that lost productivity tally. Google has preserved the Pac-Man game logo at www.google.com/pacman (you can also download the game) even though the front page has returned to normal.\n\n\nFor more business  coverage, follow Mashable Business on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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