Topeka ‘renames’ itself ‘Google, Kansas’
OK, so it’s temporary but the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas would like to temorarily rename the city to Google as in – “Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics”. His hope is to garner attention from Google to allow them to be among the first to receive their fiber-optic technology.
At 79, Bill Bunten doesn’t exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to search the Web for him. But Bunten believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas’ capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he wants Topeka — which he describes as a place of many lakes and the site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research — to change its name for a month.
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