Yep, and neither does topeka.google.com, and they don't have that Topeka logo anywhere else. This seems to be one of Google's weaker April Fool's Day efforts.
Another great move by Google.. great PR for honoring Topeka, great April Fools joke, great way to bring attention to Google broadband, great way to continue being the "good guys", etc.
I laughed at that too, but it was the only thing I thought was funny. Most of the jokes are obvious or forced. I think April's Fools is a good day to stay off the internet.
Seems like it could be an Arabic script to me, which could be used in a language in the Middle East or various other places in Asia, Africa, China etc:
Then paste that into google translate, and choose "detect language" in the "translate from" box :)
But Arabic is tricky with how characters change appearance depending on their context. And I can't find that V-like character with a stroke at the top, second in from the right in the lower word that appears on either side of the door.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 77.0 ms ] threadNow there's a link that just says "google" xD They didn't get Slashdotted, they got Googled, probably a few orders of magnitude worse.
Actually, I am guessing that it would have been their "Translate for Animals" that ended up on their UK site.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/8/11026499_17a91590c0.jpg
Is this a dig on China?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet#Languages_writt...
Perhaps fooling around at transcribing the text using a web-based virtual Arabic terminal (note the right-to-left characters) would help: http://www.gawaher.com/index.php?showtopic=3767.html&;
Then paste that into google translate, and choose "detect language" in the "translate from" box :)
But Arabic is tricky with how characters change appearance depending on their context. And I can't find that V-like character with a stroke at the top, second in from the right in the lower word that appears on either side of the door.