Google tells me to kayak from my house to Melbourne

July 30, 2008 @ 5:43 pm

I sorta did this for fun, not really knowing what to expect as a result of my search for directions, but I did it anyway.

I went to Google Maps and asked it how to get from my house in NYC to a popular shopping mall in Melbourne called Melbourne Central. To my surprise, Google Maps actually returned a result that got me from point A to point B.

The problem, if you can call it that, is that Google Maps expects me to actually kayak the Pacific Ocean to get to my destination. Somehow in the Google brain of computers, this seemed like a justified route to take. Maybe one day I will get to kayak the Pacific…

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