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Genius704 · 05-24-2010

**Tawa** · 05-24-2010

LOL @ Insert Coin!

Thank You.

SysTaMatIcS · 05-25-2010

yeh that was on www.google.com for 3 days!! didnt anyone notice that! the im feeling lucky button turned to insert coin , if you press it without typing anything in the search box , it allows you to play pacman .

**Tawa** · 05-25-2010

Yeah systa we noticed that we're just laughing at the "Insert Coin" right here, right now, because we didn't do that yet

Adam · 05-25-2010

The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study.
The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google's front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan.
The search giant reworked the game so the layout was arranged around letters forming its name.
The Pac-Man game proved so popular that Google has now made it permanently available on its own page.
Time delay The statistics on how many people played and for how long were gathered by software firm Rescue Time. It makes time-tracking software that keeps an eye on what workers do and where they go online.
On a typical day, it suggests, most people conduct about 22 searches on the Google page, each one lasting about 11 seconds.
Putting Pac-Man on the page boosted that time by an average of about 36 seconds, the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users.
The firm believes this is a relatively low figure because only a minority realised that the logo was playable. To play, people had to click on the "insert coin" button which replaced the more familiar "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on 21 and 22 May.
Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day, this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours - equal to about 549 years.
In dollar terms, assuming people are paid $25 (£17.50) an hour, this equates to about $120m in lost productivity, the firm said.
For that money, suggested Rescue Time, it would be possible to hire all Google's employees and put them to work for about six weeks.

--BBC--

Neoxter · 05-25-2010

You might be interested in this as well.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/...ic-impact.html

Google FTW.

05-24-2010	#1
Genius704 Registered Member Last Online: 11-17-2010 Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 157 Thanks: 104 Thanked 98 Times in 57 Posts Groans: 9 Groaned at 5 Times in 3 Posts	Google + namco http://www.google.com/pacman Enjoy!! __________________ Googling..

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Tawa  Last Online: 12-20-2021 Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 6,245 Thanks: 2,121 Thanked 3,365 Times in 1,740 Posts Groans: 29 Groaned at 44 Times in 35 Posts	LOL @ Insert Coin! Thank You. __________________ What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

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SysTaMatIcS Registered Member Last Online: 10-14-2022 Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 10,467 Thanks: 14,136 Thanked 4,244 Times in 2,547 Posts Groans: 186 Groaned at 198 Times in 120 Posts	yeh that was on www.google.com for 3 days!! didnt anyone notice that! the im feeling lucky button turned to insert coin , if you press it without typing anything in the search box , it allows you to play pacman . __________________ problems of performance appraisal is that it sucks to memorize them

05-25-2010	#4
Tawa  Last Online: 12-20-2021 Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 6,245 Thanks: 2,121 Thanked 3,365 Times in 1,740 Posts Groans: 29 Groaned at 44 Times in 35 Posts	Yeah systa we noticed that we're just laughing at the "Insert Coin" right here, right now, because we didn't do that yet __________________ What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

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Neoxter Beyond the Code Last Online: 06-15-2014 Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2,993 Thanks: 2,214 Thanked 3,426 Times in 1,499 Posts Groans: 57 Groaned at 69 Times in 52 Posts	You might be interested in this as well. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/...ic-impact.html Google FTW. __________________ Whatever you do, do it for the Lulz.

05-25-2010	#5
Adam Registered Member Last Online: 06-03-2013 Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,410 Thanks: 1,444 Thanked 1,235 Times in 689 Posts Groans: 25 Groaned at 21 Times in 19 Posts	The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study. The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google's front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan. The search giant reworked the game so the layout was arranged around letters forming its name. The Pac-Man game proved so popular that Google has now made it permanently available on its own page. Time delay The statistics on how many people played and for how long were gathered by software firm Rescue Time. It makes time-tracking software that keeps an eye on what workers do and where they go online. On a typical day, it suggests, most people conduct about 22 searches on the Google page, each one lasting about 11 seconds. Putting Pac-Man on the page boosted that time by an average of about 36 seconds, the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users. The firm believes this is a relatively low figure because only a minority realised that the logo was playable. To play, people had to click on the "insert coin" button which replaced the more familiar "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on 21 and 22 May. Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day, this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours - equal to about 549 years. In dollar terms, assuming people are paid $25 (£17.50) an hour, this equates to about $120m in lost productivity, the firm said. For that money, suggested Rescue Time, it would be possible to hire all Google's employees and put them to work for about six weeks. --BBC--

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