Google's Pac-man ate 4,819,352 man hours

Last Friday, Google changed its logo on the search page into a playable pac-man game to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic game.

Now, an outfit called RescueTimehas done a bit of analysis of the happening and decided that the cost of Google users noodling about on Pac-man rather than doing proper work was a staggering $120,483,800.

According to RescueTime, the average Google user spends four and a half active minutes on Google search per day, spread over about 22 page views - roughly 11 seconds on each Google page view. The click counters then and found that the average user spent 36 seconds longer on Google.com on Pac-man day.