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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Play Pac-Man appears on Google pages to commemorate the 30th birthday of the game is interesting. Many people who do not miss to taste it. However, on the other hand, the presence of potentially harmful game business because it makes millions of people waste time just to play it.

In fact, from the analysis, the total time spent in vain by all people around the world because the game is to reach 5 million hours or about 549 years. With so much wastage of productive time, the potential loss of business reached 120 million U.S. dollars. So the result of calculation from software companies as reported by the BBC Time Rescue.

Rescue Time use time tracking software that can monitor every computer user access destination and length of time. Than 11,000 software users are, on average every 22 people doing searches on Google every day and spend time each 11 seconds. However, when there is a game Pac-Man, long time they do a search up to 36 seconds.

By doing ektrapolasi to 504 million users (unique users) who access the Google page every day, additional time wasted total of 4.8 million hours aka 549 years. Assuming an average of every worker is paid 25 dollars per hour, therefore the cost incurred in vain for 120 million U.S. dollars. With that much money, Rescue Time count that money can roughly be used to pay the salaries of all Google employees during the six weeks.

Pac-Man game appeared on pages 21 to 22 May 2010 in Google. Because of high demand, Google decided to create a special page so that users can permanently play Pac-Man anytime and anywhere.