We told you a couple weeks ago about St. Louis’ efforts to become a test city for Google’s new fiber-to-home broadband internet service. St. Louis is not alone in wanting to be a test market, and some of the other competitors are going nutty vying for Google’s attention. You have probably heard the story about Topeka, Kansas changing their city’s name to Google for a month (butt-kissers) and now the city of Duluth, Minnesota is trying to go viral with a parody video. (The strategy may have worked better if the video had been funny. I made it through about 1:30 of it, let me know if you can do better.)
I guess we would have been crazy to think that no other cities would go after this opportunity, and Google would have to come to St. Louis as a test market by default, but that is not the case. In fact, blog Zettafile.com has come out with a list of all the known cities vying for Google Fiber’s attention, and there are lots of them.
Details from Google are vague at this point, only saying that it may pick one community, or it may pick more than one, and it will announce the winner(s) “later this year”.
In the meantime, please make sure you stand up for our city by heading over to Mayor Slay’s blog and taking his poll.
We’ll keep you posted.
