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On the search engine usually known as Google, users today are having their computer redirected to Topeka. The city of Topeka, Kan., has been wanting to change its name to Google, so Google decided to change its own name to Topeka.

In explaining the April Fools’ Day change, the search engine says Google employees once known as “Googlers” will now be called “Topekers” or “Topekans.”

Starbucks is getting in on the April first fun, too. The coffee giant announced on its company blog that there will soon be two new drink sizes. “Plenta” is a hefty 128 ounces, while “Micra” is a tiny two ounces. Starbucks suggests once a customer is finished with a Plenta drink, the cup can be used for a rain hat or a lampshade. It says a Micra cup can be used as a milk dish for kittens or a paper clip holder.

But that’s not all: Tech Web sites around the Web compete each year for the most outrageous April Fool’s jokes. And TechCrunch has rounded the best of them up — spotlighting a few the site’s own pranks.

There’s a a clever play on its efforts to build a cheap, Web surfing tablet PC, a device that would have been called the CrunchPad and would have competed with the Apple iPad. TechCrunch writes how, for less than $50, you can turn any laptop into a high-tech CrunchPad device. “It uses the finest F.U.J.J. technology” and includes a how-to video.