10.7 mn man hours lost in Les Paul doodle

June 16, 2011 15:01

If you haven't checked out the Google doodle today, do it now.

It has emerged that the world spent 10.7 million hours playing with guitar legend Les Paul's doodle last week.

A Google homepage doodle posted last week honouring Paul has cost the world 268 million dollars, despite only setting the internet giant back a mere 15,000 dollars, said Extreme Tech.

It also said the amount covers 10.7 million man-hours in lost productivity, assuming the average Google user earns 25 dollars an hour.

During the two days that the Les Paul doodle was online, those 740 million visitors, according to analytics from RescueTime, spent 26 seconds more on the Google home page than normal.

740 million times 26 seconds is 5,344,444 hours - and over two days, that's a total of almost 10.7 million man hours spent playing with the Les Paul Google Doodle.

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