Ever since Google announced that it would be deploying 1 Gbps connections to a few lucky Americans as part of a limited (50k-500k) test network, we've watched the newswires absolutely light up (Plug "Google," "fiber" and "hope" into Google News to see what we mean). Given that Google's deployment is largely about testing video ads and gathering data for use in their ongoing debate with carriers over things like competition, open access and network neutrality -- most of these towns and cities are going to be disappointed. To set themselves apart from the herd the town of Topeka, Kansas has decided to change the city's name to "Google" for the month of March according to the Topeka Capital-Journal:It's fairly amazing what Google has accomplished on the PR front with this announcement without lighting a single strand of fiber or delivering a single kilobyte. Cities are tripping over themselves to win Google's affections, helping Google to highlight that towns and cities want more than what's being delivered by a frequently uncompetitive U.S. broadband market. In the process, they're pushing the Google brand into every major news outlet in America as something positive in the minds of consumers, even if the vast majority of them will never actually see a Google-fueled fiber connection.