Come on, admit it. You took five minutes and played Pac-Man using Google’s main search page last week.
Well, somebody did. According to the software for Rescue Time, a total of almost five million hours of work time was lost last Friday to people playing Pac-Man on Google, BBC News has reported.
The classic video game turned 30 last week. Google celebrated the milestone by replacing the logo on the main search page with a game of Pac-Man.
Users definitely gobbled up the chance to tap into their childhood, according to Rescue Time’s calculations.
The company makes time-tracking software that watches what workers do online.
On a typical day, the software suggests that most people conduct about 22 searches on the Google page – and each one of those searches lasts about 11 seconds.
Well, when Google put the Pac-Man game on its search page, the amount of time people were on the site tripled, Rescue Time tells BBC News.
Add that all up, and Rescue Time said people spent 4.8 million hours – or 549 years total – on the site last Friday.
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