MicrostockGroup

Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google.
The unusual move is a response to Google’s new “Fiber for Communities” program. Google is going to install new Internet connections in unannounced locations, giving those communities Internet speeds 100 times faster than those elsewhere, with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second. Mayor hoped the proclamation would catch Google’s attention. Guess what, today Google officially changed it’s name to Topeka to honor this gesture. No info on which municipalities are chosen to participate in our experimental ultra-high-speed broadband project.




http://melastmohican.net/wordpress/2010/04/01/google-changes-name-to-topeka/

Now that is actually really funny.

I don't think it's much of an Aprils fool, the town did actually change it's name, Google are always changing their graphics so to change it to Topeka for a day isn't much of a prank, I wonder how many people just carried on using it without being 'fooled' especially considering that by the time it appeared April fools day was pretty much officially finished over this side of the water. I know for a fact that it was still showing 'Google'  this morning our time so if I had seen it this afternoon I wouldn't have paid much attention to it.

Now this is a much better effort by them:
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

and this is relevant for us:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/192650/aceshot_xr7000_the_smallest_dslr_camera_ever.html

Google often joins April Fool's and I was waiting for something.  Instead, there is a Hans Christian Andersen logo series, but that is actually for April 2nd.  It's curious to celebrate "205" years.
http://www.google.com/logos/andersen10-1-hp.gif
http://www.google.com/logos/andersen10-2-hp.gif
http://www.google.com/logos/andersen10-3-hp.gif
http://www.google.com/logos/andersen10-4-hp.gif
http://www.google.com/logos/andersen10-5-hp.gif

well, there was a Gmail April's Fool joke:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html