{"id":579726,"date":"2010-05-26T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justaguything.com\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2010-05-26T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:16:36","slug":"it-adds-up-google%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cpac-man%e2%80%9d-homepage%e2%80%9d-cost-society-120mm-in-lost-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579726","title":{"rendered":"It Adds Up: Google\u2019s \u201cPac-Man\u201d Homepage\u201d Cost Society $120mm in Lost Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s all just a game until society forfeits the gross domestic product of Haiti. \u00a0As much fun as the Pac-Man game was (not all that fun), it sure did come at a price<\/a>. \u00a0The embedded game caused web surfers to spend 44 seconds on Google.com, rather than the more standard 11. \u00a0Multiply that by the number of people (lots) and their wage (about $25\/hour) and you’ve got a very expensive timesuck on your hands.<\/p>\n

I’m guessing that Lost message boards cost the economy more money, but I think NASA would need to get involved in the tabulation of that one.<\/p>\n

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    It’s all just a game until society forfeits the gross domestic product of Haiti. \u00a0As much fun as the Pac-Man game was (not all that fun), it sure did come at a price. \u00a0The embedded game caused web surfers to spend 44 seconds on Google.com, rather than the more standard 11. \u00a0Multiply that by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6885,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}