Why does google earth/maps give you absurd directions?

THere's a Facebook group that tell's you to search for directions for america to china or japan to china.





And if you look at the actual directions on google, it tells to you jet ski over the atlantic, or kayak across the pacific.





Why does it say that??|||Because they're being funny. Google hides lots of easter eggs in their products. Here's a list of lots of them.


http://www.pcworld.com/article/142620/go鈥?/a>





The things they do with all that extra money|||They make jokes about impossible driving directions that would happen over large bodys of water.|||Probably the Google devs having a joke|||idk maybe they said it before they had the transportation type. or ther're lyin. so ya