Of all the things I heard in the news today (earthquakes, storms, letting kids manage the air traffic control…), the one thing that made me go “What now?!!” -

Google, Kansas – The Capital City of FiIber Optics

In what may be one of the silliest moves ever made by an elected official, the mayor of Kansas’s capital has unofficially changed his city’s name to Google. Yes, you read correctly: Topeka is now Google, Kansas. – (Read the whole news here)

View the full document here from PCWorld

I can’t wrap my head around it yet, if it’s a good marketing tactic promoting your city to the extreme like that or it’s a big no-no because you’re using the brand name of Google which I am not sure is allowed.

Oh well, Welcome to Google, Kansas!

[image above from the PCworld article]