In a bid to be ‘returned result A’ in the list of suitors for Google’s announced 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home network experiment, the City of Topeka, capital city of Kansas in the United States, will be known as ‘Google, Kansas – The Capital City of Fibre Optics’ for all of March. By proclamation signed by Mayor William Bunten, the name change is to “recognize and support the continuing efforts to bring Google’s, “FIBRE FOR COMMUNITIES” experiment to our city…” Talk about a butt-kiss!

♺ Ping: Ars Technica, Nate Anderson, “Desperate cities beseech St. Google: bless us with thy fiber”, 25 February 2010. Photo: Adaptation of google was here? by gigaman (crop and resize). This version and the original available under a CC BY 2.0 Generic licence.