google maps....quite interesting.

[田中秀樹]

so my friend just showed me this. i tried it and it came up on my screen too.

here's a screen shot i took. take a look at Step 33.

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/8035/interestinggoogleox0.th.jpg (http://img487.imageshack.us/my.php?image=interestinggoogleox0.jpg)

now i know, if i ever feel like driving from Stanford, CA, USA to Stockholm Sweden. google will help me.

here's a link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=Stanford,+California,+United+States&daddr=KTH-hallen,+Stockholm,+Sweden&ie=UTF8&sll=44.590467,-45.351562&sspn=72.777899,141.328125&om=1&z=4&ll=38.822591,-49.394531&spn=40.257594,77.080078&layer=t

[Chris07LB]

LOL.. :laugh:

[bigsky2]

haha.. Nice find

[Blenjar]

hey lmao u would prob wont believe this but I did something like that today..it told me to swim the atlantic ocean to UK greenwich..i was trying to go to Greenwich, CT.

-- Blen

[pc1x1]

hahah what does it say when you get to the ocean? Take Atlantic Blvd to? approx 100000000 miles? O_O!

[YANGSTER]

hahah what does it say when you get to the ocean? Take Atlantic Blvd to? approx 100000000 miles? O_O!

Nope....it says
32. Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi
33. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
34. Slight right at E05 0.5 mi
:headbang:

[Chris07LB]

hahah what does it say when you get to the ocean? Take Atlantic Blvd to? approx 100000000 miles? O_O!


Click the link... it s funny. :laugh:

[d2dailly]

someone should try it, and die along the way, then your family sue google for telling you to swim the ocean. lol your family would be rich

[Black Yaris]

funny shit... I tried getting directions to Tokyo, Japan... no luck :( I geuss you can not swim across the pacific ocean

[brickhardmeat]

That's a long drive

[eco]

Lawsuit waiting to happen.

[eTiMaGo]

It's obviously tongue-in-cheek, I mean, the guys who developed this had to consciously put in the command to "swim across", and since I'm quite sure they very well know most cars can't quite swim (unless they all have amphibious vehicles at Google HQ), I see it as a witty answer to a stupid question.

[Black Yaris]

It was like a while back if you googled the word "failure" the top result was George W Bush's web site... those guys at google