It's true folks, read it here on the official Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html
of course it's an april fools joke, but imagine if they did change their name - how much would need to change? what impact it would have? would even be possible for google to change their name? it's a brilliant prank, and great to see a company of this size still having a sense of humour!
Good Joke... Perhaps Chinese government would now issue a clarification allowing Topika to commence its SE operation.... censor or no censor, since it is no longer GOOGLE! Regards, RightMan
Another "Fools" made by Google. Nice job. I hope their another fools could be "Google bought YPN help Yahoo recovered from financial crisis."