To end this heavy week of launches, updates, management reshuffles and other big stuff, here is a news that is on a much lighter side of the Search Engine world. It seems that Michael Smith of Technocrat has found the 'Easter Egg' in the Google Maps. Easter Eggs are the hidden surprises in a program that are embedded by the programmers.

If you try to look up for directions in for an address in Australia to an address in the United States of America, the Google Maps, will actually provide you with step by step directions to reach your destination, while crossing the Pacific Ocean. Quite an interesting ride, that would turn out to be, don't you think so?

Well, if you have a hard time believing it, then take a look at the map yourself:

'Australia to United States'. Travel Directions by Google Maps:

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