For the month of March, the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas has issued a proclamation that his city be known as 'Google, Kansas -- The capital city of fiber optics.' No, Mayor Bill Bunten hasn't lost his
mind. Rather, the proclamation is ploy to attract Google, which is still seeking a test site for its high-speed broadband experiment. As Topeka's name cannot legally be provisionally changed to
'Google,' the proclamation instead calls on residents to refer to the city as 'Google' until April.
The search giant announced plans in early February to build and test new high-speed
broadband networks in one or more places around the country. The company says the system of fiber-optic cables would deliver Internet connections 100 times faster than most systems now available.
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