It has come to light that workers at the Mountain View cyberfirm are routinely forced to swim the 3,000 miles between New York and Paris. Either that, or the trek otherwise seems of little consequence to those who construct the Google Maps tool.

The proof? Google's set of direction instructions for getting from New York, New York to Paris, France includes a full 3,462 miles of the breaststroke.

Swim Atlantic

We can only hope this isn't a conspiracy by Microsoft to drown all their competitors' employees, because that wouldn't be very nice.