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Google Goes Topeka

You've already heard about Topeka, Kansas renaming itself Google as part of a stunt to become part ofGoogle's municipal broadband project. Google has decided to repay that tribute by renaming the company Topeka. "We had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name," Topeka explained in a company blog post, "But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka's municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains."

Topeka has even offered new phrases for the company name like "Before our blind date I Topeka'd him."

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