Friday will be "Google Day" in the city of Pittsburgh as the Mayor's office calls on city residents to don black-and-gold and form the word "GOOGLE" for a photograph tomorrow at lunchtime, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced today.

The move is the latest in a long series of stunts nationwide as cities vie to serve as a testbed for Google's experimental high-speed Internet service.

Mayor Ravenstahl announced the city's participation last week at a conference alongside officials from UPMC and Carnegie Mellon.

Participants are asked to arrive at the City-County Building Downtown by noon tomorrow in their best black-and-gold attire. The photo, taken from of the roof of the building, will be shot at 12:30 p.m.

The Mayor will send the photo to Google with the city's application. Residents can voice their support for Pittsburgh at www.PittsburghGoesGoogle.com

The service would provide home Internet connections one hundred times faster than current service.

In his appeal to the search company, the mayor of Topeka, Kansas temporarily renamed his city "Google" for the month of March.

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