Google picks Kansas City over Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh made the finals in the Google sweepstakes but we came up second.  Google will be installing a fiber network in Kansas City in the upcoming year.  It promises speeds upwards to1000 times faster than current high-speed networks are today.  Google has been planning this for years and were scouting smaller cities to roll out the service.  It is believed that Google ultimately wants to take it national, and needed a large, but small city to test the service.  I tell you, the speed of that network alone would tempt me enough to move back within city limits again.  Check out the article on the Pittsburgh Post Gazette here.