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Google's annual April Fools joke
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03/04/2010 14:56:49
 
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>>>http://www.google.com/
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>>Ummm... I missed the message yesterday, and the main page doesn't look like an April Fool's joke today. What was it about?
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>It looked like the regular Google main page except it said Topeka at the top instead of Google. Same colors, font, etc. It was a reference to Topeka, Kansas recently saying it was changing its name to Google, Kansas. That was a mostly a joke although with a serious side. Google is going to build a new superserver farm and so far over 1000 cities have said they want it located there.
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>There was also a link under the search box to a very humorous explanation of why Google was changing its name.

Not just a new superserver farm, but a gigabyte network in a city of 50,000-500,000 population. The application for it was HUGE here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html
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