Google Receives More Than 1,100 Official Applications for Fiber Broadband Network

Cities have temporarily renamed themselves "Google." YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have been used and abused. And hundreds of government officials have written proper applications to be the site of Google's forthcoming fiber network. Google hasn't announced its plans yet, but the company did release some statistics this weekend.

Turns out over 1,100 official governmental applications were sent in, and over 194,000 personal requests from citizens. You can see on the map above exactly where...