Google's April Fool's Day Prank

Google will likely get the most notice of any April Fool's Day gag today after changing its name to Topeka.

Why Topeka? As Google points out in a link to this CNN story, it is a joke based on the decision in early March by the mayor of that Kansas town to change its name, at least for a month, to Google.

Mayor Bill Bunten “believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas' capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he wants Topeka -- which he describes as a place of many lakes and the site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research -- to change its name for a month,” the CNN story said at the time. “In a formal proclamation Monday, Bunten announced his city will be known as 'Google' -- Google, Kansas.”

What's next? Facebook, Arkansas?