Topeka City renames as Google Kansas
Topeka, the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas will be unofficially known as Google, Kansas for one month – March 2010.
(Photo, Picture of Google Kansas illustration made by CNN. Photo Courtesy: CNN.com)
The city Mayor Bill Bunten announced Monday about the temporary change.
The unusual move comes as several U.S. cities elbow for a spot in Google’s new “Fiber for Communities” program. The Web giant is going to install new Internet connections in unannounced locations, giving those communities Internet speeds 100 times faster than those elsewhere, with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second.
Cities have until March 26 to tell Google they’re interested in the venture. Google says it will pick one or more cities for the pilot project. “We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people,” Google says in an online post. Source: CNN.com
Read more from:
- Topeka, Kansas at Wikipedia
- Topeka Unofficially Renamed “Google, Kan.” – CBS
- Topeka ‘renames’ itself ‘Google, Kansas’ – CNN
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Topeka: That’s Google, Kansas To You PC World
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Topeka renames itself … Google, Kansas? Computerworld
Posted: March 3rd, 2010 under General.
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