Google down… if this is the real case, despite the existence of lots of search engines, web surfers still sees this as a big challenge. Google was down this afternoon according to many devoted Twitter users. “Google Down” was a hot topic around 3pm est.

When Google has a problem everyone appears to want to Google the issue. Many Twitter followers were complaining about the most popular search engine’s inaccessibility.

Google might have been down a while ago but it seems to be working fine now. When Google is down many are strained to utilize other search engines like Bing, Yahoo, Lycos, and so on.

Google becomes Topeka in April Fool's hoax
Also removes vowels from Google Gmail home page as part of annual April 1 prank

Users searching for information online have a new option today -- they can Topeka it.

Sound strange? You can thank Google and the collective sense of humor its workers use to create annual April Fool's Day pranks.

The search company this morning played an April Fool's prank on its millions of worldwide users with an announcement that it has changed its name to Topeka in honor of Topeka, Kansas. The announcement comes several weeks after the Kansas capitol city unofficially changed its name to Google as part of an effort to convince the search giant to select it as a test site for its planned super-fast, fiber-optic network.

"Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We've been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture," wrote Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, or Topeka Inc., in a blog post.

"We didn't reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name," Schmidt added. "But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka's municipal Web site, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains."