Google's Top 17 Easter Eggs, Gags, and Hoaxes By Tom Spring

Classic Google Maps Easter Egg
A while back, if you asked for directions from, say, New York City to Paris on Google Maps, you would be informed that what objectively appears to be a swim of some 3462 miles across the Atlantic Ocean was in fact merely a stroll of two dozen steps. Last year Google removed this Easter Egg from Google Maps, saying figuratively: "You can't get there from here."