In a surprise move by Google, the company has decided to honor Topeka Kansas’ decision to change their cities name to Google by changing Google’s name to Topeka. Details of the change can be found here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html

To help generate buzz and publicize the company’s new name Google Topeka has released a host of new products and services. For the complete list please see below…

Google Translate for Animals http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

Google Voice Standard Voicemail Mode http://www.google.com/googlevoice/standard_voicemail.html

Google Wave wave notifications http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/03/try-out-new-google-wave-wave.html

Youtube TEXTp http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/textp-saves-youtube-bandwidth-money.html

Google Docs upload and store anything http://googledocs.blogspot.com/

Google Annotations Gallery http://code.google.com/p/gag/

In other Google Topeka news, GMail is suffering yet another outtage. This time users are still able to access their email however messages are missing vowels making it difficult to understand the message contents. More details and status can be found here: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html