Deconstructing Topeka | A Google April Fool with legs
If you dig into Topeka, you're bound to find good potatoes. In the Ioway and Kansa languages, that's exactly what "topeka" means, according to Wikipedia: "To dig good potatoes." However, if you Google Topeka, you might get caught in an infinite loop where questions like "Why does Google say Topeka?" will have little to no meaning. For what you see is Google as Topeka, and Topeka is Google. The search engine giant - in what amounts to more than a mere Google April Fool - has changed its name to Topeka, honoring that capital city of Kansas that just happens to have changed its name to Google. Don't get your brain all tangled up in a Mobius strip. Luckily, before that could happen, you would need to iron it beforehand. But first you'd need payday loans to buy a home surgery kit.
All roads lead to Topeka
If your everyday online life never included Topeka, it does now. Topeka, Inc. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt quotes Google Mayor Bill Bunten on the Official Google Blog that "Even Google recognizes that all roads lead to Kansas, not just yellow brink ones." That was said before the Google April Fool rift in space-time, so you may want to adjust your Element Zero grammar scanners accordingly. By their logic, no matter where you go, there you are in Topeka. It would take some time to arrive in Topeka after you've left Topeka, even while it may actually be possible with a Topological view of the cosmos. So long as you make it back for Kansas Day on January 29, you're in for some good BBQ.
Wait, Topeka was Google only temporarily?
I hope Topeka has more resolve to stay the course. As it stands, Mayor Bunten unofficially changed the name of Topeka to Google for a month, in March 2010. A previous name for "the capital city of fiber optics" was "Topikachu," for the Pokémon franchise that teaches children that animals can be crammed into small metal eggs. Topeka stepped up considerably when it became Google, even if it was a ploy to try to get the company to drop its highest-quality fiber optic lines there. Ideally, Topeka would have officially become Google so that the population could personally serve search results to every Topeka searcher in the U.S.
Google feels 'a kinship' with the Great Plains city, says Eric Schmidt
Nothing holds down a good Topekan; they rebuild, even after hard hit floods and tornadoes. Although, in actuality, it only flies because this is a Google April Fool, Google equates that with releasing 2.0 versions of software. A typical man of Topeka is Alfred E. Neuman. His kind of "What? Me Worry?" attitude is what has helped Google come up with ideas Google Buzz. Schmidt reminds us to remember that they "aren't in Google anymore". It remains unclear whether he wrote that after or before he was assaulted by flying monkeys.
How will Oliver Google Kai view the rebranding?
Maybe his parents will sue. Of course Oliver Google Kai could get his name changed with the help of mama and papa - he's only 4-years-old - but why would he want to do something like that? No matter the fact that Topeka is spud nomenclature, no one wants to be called a spud unless they're in need of serious debt management help or 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion Spud Webb. Schmidt claims that Topeka will receive no special favors regarding the ultra-high-speed broadband project, but this whole Topeka - Google love fest seems a technological slam dunk.