• SFWeekly, Friday, February 19, 2010 3:04 PM

Sorry, New York! San Francisco's SFWeekly.com seems to believe that its fair city is quite likely to win Google's national broadband network contest. The search giant recently announced plans to build a new fiber network in one lucky city to demonstrate the viability of its new technology.

Still, the paper suggests several reasons why Google might overlook the city by the Bay. For, "There are cities where anyone with a fistful of dollars can sign some papers in the morning and begin tearing up the streets in the afternoon," it writes. "That is not the case here." Also, San Fran might just be too big for what Google has in mind. Google's guidelines apparently call for a municipality of 50,000 to 500,000 residents. That counts out New York City.

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