Wow! Pacman! It‘s a very old game! I remember I loved this game and had been playing it since I was kindegarden ’till junior high school lol..I’m 27 years old now by the way :p

So, our topic now is about this Pacman game..Google Pacman exactly! ^-^ I was searching the hottest topic from Google search engine and wallaaa..I found Google Pacman as the most wanted topic at the moment! I was wondering why..hmm..so I searched and I think I found the answer..

Did you notice that around date May 21-22, 2010 ago, there was a Pacman game whenever we came to our best search engine site, Google ? Yep-yep..we called it Google Pacman! Why ? Because the Pacman’ map was written from “Google” letter on it! It’s really cute you know lol..The Google Pacman game on Google search engine homepage were put to celebrate the 30th years Anniversary of Pacman Game.

But guess what ? That two days of Google Pacman have wasted 549 years!!! Whattt ??? Can you believe that ???

I couldn’t at first, but here let me share you the explanations that I got from an article at Kompas Tekno’s site, in English of course ;)

Jakarta, Kompas.com – The Pacman game popped up at Google’s page to celebrate the 30th years Anniversary of tha game. It was interesting and fun, because a lot of people couldn’t helped to try and play that game. But..it also came with a side effect. That game was potentially harms the business world because it made millions of people were wasting their times to play it.

In fact, from an analysis report, the total amount of time that were wasted by most people all around the world because of that game reached 5 millions of hours or 549 years! With an amount of productive time wasted like that, the potential business’s lost reaches 120 millions US Dollars. That calculation came from Rescue Time, the software company, says BBC.

Rescue Time was using a time tracker software which able to tracking the access aim of every computer users and their online time length. From 11.000 users of that software, most of people were searching on Google for at least 22 searches everyday and each of them wasted 11 seconds. But, when there was Google Pacman on the page, their time length in using the search engine were raised untill 36 seconds.

By doing an extrapolation of 504 users (unique user) whom accessing Google page almost everyday, the total additional time wasted was 4,8 millions of hours or 549 years. If we assume that the average of workers paid $25 each hour, the cost that has to be wasted was around 120 millions US Dollars. With that big amount of money, Rescue Time counts that those money were able to pay the salary of all Google’s employees for 6 weeks!

Google Pacman popped up at May 21st to 22nd, 2010 on Google page. Because the high demands of this game, Google decided to created a special page permanently, so their users can play Pac-Man anytime, anywhere..

There you go hehehe … Phewww … Amazing Google Pac-Man huh ? LOL … Ok, I’m done for now lol .. I’ll see you all later, my readers! >:D<