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Old 04-01-2010, 12:34 PM   #1
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"Topeka" It

Pretty funny. Google's changed their name to Topeka today for April Fool's, in response to Topeka changing it's name to Google for the month of March to get Google to use the KS capital as a broadband test market.

As part of the running gag, they've placed this explanation on their site for the name change:



http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/...pany-name.html
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Old 04-01-2010, 12:49 PM   #2
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Pretty funny, wonder how many people were confused after first going to google.com
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Old 04-01-2010, 01:16 PM   #3
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How about the new Google Application Translate for animals.
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/land...ateforanimals/
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How about the new Google Application Translate for animals.
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/land...ateforanimals/
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