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Google doodle celebrating Pac-Man - Source: ONE News -
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Google's animated Pacman doodle game has cost the UK economy at least five million hours of work time and more than a $120 million financially, The Daily Telegraph and BBC are reporting.
A playable version of the classic video game was created and put on Google to celebrate its 30 years on the 21st of May.
The game has proven to be so popular with Google users that the company has now made it permanently available on its own page at Google.com/pacman.
Rescue Time, a tool that enables businesses to measure how time and attention is being spent, estimated that Google had around 505 million unique users on the day the Pacman Google Doodle went live, and that the game consumed 4,819,352 hours of employee time, costing the economy an estimated $120,483,800.
But the numbers were not too high, as it seems most people did not know that the logo was playable.
To play the game, users must click on the Insert Coin button, which replaces the I'm Feeling Lucky button Google users are more familiar with.
The Pacman game was Google's first interactive doodle logo.
