| Why does Google say Topeka? This is April Fool's | | | | town. It also goes to show how much of an impact a |
| day! | | | | silly search engine has on everyone. |
| Topeka is the capital of Kansas, and they are thrilled | | | | Do you wish it was YOUR town's name displayed on |
| about what Google has done on their homepage. | | | | Google's page? Vote here: |
| They hope this will boost visitors to their town. | | | | >>YES! Of course!<< |
| What google actually did by changing their logo was all | | | | >>NO! Thats absurd!<< |
| for laughs. It wasn't to confuse all of you Googlers, but | | | | The Topeka-Google April Fools' joke is all for kicks. |
| this one got me! | | | | During an April Fools' press release earlier, Google |
| Topeka is one of MANY communities trying to get | | | | CEO, Eric Schmidt, explained the reason for Google's |
| chosen by Google to be part of their fiber optic | | | | new name. |
| experiment. This service is made to provide blazing | | | | "We didn't reach this decision lightly; after all, we had |
| fast internet service to its users. In an attempt to | | | | a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name," |
| one-up the rest of the competition, city council of | | | | he explains. "But the more we surfed around (the |
| Topeka voted 9-0 to change the city's name to | | | | former) Topeka's municipal website, the more kinship |
| Google during March 2010. That's real ballsy I'd say and | | | | we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great |
| I bet a lot of people are mad about that too! | | | | Plains. In fact, Topeka Google Mayor Bill Bunten |
| So, to return the flattery, jokingly of course, Google | | | | expressed it best: 'Don't be fooled. Even Google |
| changes its name to Topeka for April Fool's day. How | | | | recognizes that all roads lead to Kansas, not just |
| great is that! I bet the Google nerds of Kansas are | | | | yellow brick ones. |
| losing it that something like that could happen to their | | | | |