Social Media  And the Winner of Google's Ultra High-Speed
Internet Is ...   Kansas City, Kansas, will be the first city to
receive Google's experimental high-speed Internet network. The
announcement Wednesday ends a year-long process that sparked a
heated nationwide competition between more than 1,000 U.S.
communities.  The search giant first announced its intention to
build an experimental fiber network with speeds 100 times faster
than the typical U.S. Internet connection — an astounding 1 GB
per second. Google's goal wasn't to become an Internet service
provider (ISP) that would compete with the likes of Comcast but
rather was to help push broadband and Internet delivery forward.
After Google's initial announcement, dozens of cities started
their own campaigns to persuade Google to bring its high-speed
network to their cities. Most famously, Topeka, Kansas, briefly
changed its name to Google, Kansas, but other cities went to
great lengths to get Google's attention.  Now, a full year
later, the technology