Google's celebration of Pac-Man's 30th anniversary was fun, enabling people to play Pac-Man on their main search page, either as a one- or two-player game. And people certainly took advantage of the opportunity, spending approximately 4,819,352 hours on the game alone. The result is approximately $120 million in productivity lost, in one day.
Thankfully, Google tossed out the logo with pretty low “perceived affordance” – they put an “insert coin” button next to the search button, but I imagine most users missed that. In fact, I’d wager that 75% of the people who saw the logo had no idea that you could actually play it. Which the world should be thankful for.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by nmiller.
No Google search could be completed until a level of pacman was completed (without fail).
You want to talk about an unproductive day...
Maybe they were keeping track of a loss in Farmville productivity.
Just be sure to rot away on your own time, ok?