That’s Google, Kansas To You

Topeka Name: Google, KansasIn what may be one of the silliest moves ever made by an elected official, the mayor of Kansas’s capital has unofficially changed his city’s name to Google. Yes, you read correctly: Topeka is now Google, Kansas.

In the words of Dorothy Gale, oh my.

Topeka and the Google, Kansas Proclamation

Topeka: Google, KansasThe decision to change Topeka’s name to Google was made via a proclamation signed at a city council meeting on Monday. In the proclamation, Mayor Bill Bunten declares that the city will be known as Google for the entire month of March. (You can view the original city document here.)

Now, lest you think the guy’s gone totally cuckoo, there is an actual point to this: Google, you may recall, recently announced plans to build a series of superfast broadband networks in cities across America. Google’s broadband service will bring speeds up to a hundred times faster than what most people currently have — but not everyone’s going to get it.

Google’s planning to build its broadband networks in a limited number of communities. It’s calling upon city leaders and others to nominate their hometowns for inclusion. After all the nominations have been received, Google will select a handful of places best suited for its experiment.

Topeka’s mayor really, really wants his city to be one of those places.

In his proclamation, Mayor Bunten calls the city of Topeka — er, sorry, the city of Google — the “capital city of fiber optics.” From the document:

“I, William W. Bunten, mayor of the city of Topeka, Kansas, urge the citizens of Topeka to recognize and support the continuing efforts to bring Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ experiment to our city, and do hereby proclaim that for the month of March 2010, the city of Topeka will be known as Google, Kansas.”

All righty, then.

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28 条评论到 “That’s Google, Kansas To You”

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  4. 三七八蛋 2010/03/05 14:13:00 回复

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  6. 诗涵 2010/03/05 09:14:41 回复

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  18. 无名博客 2010/03/04 19:27:13 回复

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  23. 苏扬 2010/03/04 17:18:26 回复

    the mayor of Kansas’s capital has unofficially changed his city’s name to Google 也就是说还没有正式命名,算不得什么

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  25. 大踏步走 2010/03/04 16:41:13 回复

    E文不懂。。。

  26. win-google blogs 2010/03/04 15:54:06 回复

    都向英文发展了,牛啊!

  27. cyusyu 2010/03/04 15:53:17 回复

    Kansas’s capital is very 牛!

    • 苏囧 2010/03/04 16:19:45 回复

      很有钱。。。

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