Hey guys! I have a favor for you! Make sure to do it today, because its supposed to be for April Fools. Ok, go to www.google.com, and see what happens! DON'T READ ON PAST THE DOTS! It will ruin the surprise................................................................................
Ok, so did you see the website? Cool, right? Ok, so here is the explanation behind it. Read this artical from CNN.com. -->
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Just Topeka it.
Google led a wave of technology-related April Fool's Day gags Thursday morning, announcing on its homepage that the search-engine giant had changed its name to that of the Kansas town.
The announcement, along with the word "Topeka" replacing "Google" in the site's multicolored logo, is a riff on the city "renaming" itself Google for a month.
The stunt was part of the city's bid to be picked for Google's "Fiber for Communities" program, which Google says will provide Internet access 100 times faster than normal.
"We didn't reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name," Google ... er ... Topeka CEO Eric Schmidt said in a blog post. "But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka's municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains."
The blog even gave a list of proper and improper usage of the new name. "Before our blind date, I did a Topeka search on him" got the green light, while "Before our blind date, I topeka'd him with AltaVista" did not.
The post did point out that the "honor" didn't mean Topeka has a leg up in Google's broadband plan.
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