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pLike many other websites, we posted a link to Google’s homepage last Friday when, for one day only, they had a free Pac-Man applet at the top of the page. It has since become so popular that Google is offering it full-time A HREF=”http://www.google.com/pacman/” here/A./p

pNow, party-pooping analysts and software at A HREF=”http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=google+traffic” Wolfram Alpha/A and A HREF=”http://blog.rescuetime.com/2010/05/24/the-tragic-cost-of-google-pac-man-4-82-million-hours/” RescueTime/A are claiming the one day of fun had a negative impact on the freaking U.S. economy. Here’s what they’re saying: /p

blockquote- The average user spent 36 seconds MORE on Google.com on Friday.br- Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of timebr- $120,483,800 is the dollar tally, if the average Google user has a COST of $25/hr/blockquote

pThey have statistics and charts to back all this up, but we’re a little disappointed they didn’t list the stats we’re really interested in: How many dots, total, did Pac-Man consume? How many times did Inky, Pinky, Blinky Clyde get eaten? Where is Ms. Pac-Man in all of this, and why is she “Ms,” are they not married?/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/business/pac-man_singlehandedly_destroys_us_economy_hows_that_for_sensationalist_16631.asp”(more…)/a
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