It’s official: Google is taking over the world

The mayor of Topeka, Kansas has temporarily changed the name of the city to:

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It sort of blew my mind when I saw this, but I soon calmed down when I read that it would only be for a month. Mayor Bill Bunten hopes that the name change will be noticed by Google, who is soon to install new internet connections in select areas that are said to be 100 times faster than anywhere else. Bunten hopes that Topeka will become more appealing to a younger demographic as well as a more popular town in general. “The young people are the ones that caught onto this and go to the Internet and asked people in the city to sign on as supporting Google coming to Topeka,” said Bunten.

Personally, I don’t quite think “Google” is as clever as “ToPikachu,” which was the city’s name for a day back in 1998 when Pokemon was all the rage. Though, I do think that this little publicity stunt will be a success on the Mayor’s part. I guess all you have to do for some amazingly fast internet is suck up to one of the world’s most powerful corporations.

via: CNN