On June 13, 2011, writer Sebastian Anthony at Extreme Tech wrote, "During the two days that the Les Paul [Google] doodle was online, those 740 million visitors spent 26 seconds more on the Google home page than normal. That's a total of almost 10.7 million man-hours spent playing with the Les Paul Google Doodle. Assuming the average Google user earns $25/hour, the doodle cost companies around the world $268 million in lost productivity." Mr. Anthony's mistake is overestimating opportunity costs. He is doing this by assuming that:

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Mr. Anthony's mistake is assuming that all the time spent on the Google Doodle would have been spent working instead, which is an overestimation of opportunity costs. It is more likely that the visitors would have spent that time on other leisure activities or non-work-related tasks.

On June 13, 2011, Writer Sebastian Anthony at Extreme Tech