It pays to Topeka.
comtech_newsLet_me_Topeka_that_for_you Alright excellent netizens of Engadget its time for us to bring you the sort of har.
Thats right look at where the Google logo once took pride of place instead there is a logo that says Topeka.
Topeka is Googles new name in honoring the city for renaming itself to Google. Today we are pleased to announce that as. You know April Fools Day. So why Topeka This is the opening paragraph on the Official Google Blog Early last month the. Julio Hungria April 1 2010 at 1153 am. Weve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture.
For 150 years its fortuitous location at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Oregon Trail has made the city formerly known as Topeka a key jumpingoff point to the new world of the West just as for 150 months the company.
Okay so my usually reliable sources werent so reliable. There have been reports that the search engine has changed its name to Topeka. No one tipped me off that Google would officially change its name to Topeka or that YouTube would go to textonly mode or TEXTp on April 1 2010. This is just the latest in a number of April. must be celebrating in the city with Google officially changing its name to Topeka on April 1 2010. Want the scoop on what everyones talking about at the office Thursday April 1 2010.
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TopekaKansas Mayor left the world stunned by announcing a huge go changing his citys name to Google.
Early last month the mayor of Topeka Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google.
Cute April Fools joke Google.
The tourism folks at Visit Topeka Inc.
Topeka (/tɵˈpiːkə/;”to dig excellent potatoes” in the languages of the Kansa and the Ioway. The potato referred to is the prairie potato, Psoralea esculenta, a perennial herb which is an vital food for many Native Americans. As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka’s founders chose the name in 1855 because it “was novel, of Indian origin and euphonious of sound.” The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city.
History
19th century
In the 1840s, wagon trains made their way west from Independence, Missouri, on a 2,000 miles (3,000 km) journey following what would come to be known as the Oregon Trail. About 60 miles (97
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