A US city which wants to be the home of a high-speed broadband network being built by internet giant Google has changed its name to boost its chances.
Topeka, Kansas, will be known as "Google, Kansas - the capital city of fibre optics" for the month of March, according to Mayor William Bunten.
The official city website, Topeka.org, welcomes visitors to "The City of Google" -written in the large colourful letters the search engine company is known for.
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Google announced last month that it planned to build experimental, ultra high-speed broadband networks that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than those of today.
The Web search and advertising giant said the envisioned one-gigabit-per-second networks would be built in "a small number of trial locations" in the United States.
Communities seeking to take part in the experiment have until March 26 to make their interest known to Google. The selected communities will be announced later this year.
