A group of people seeking faster Internet for Fishers has nominated the town for a Google experiment that has the technology world abuzz.

Google announced this week that it will choose one or more communities in which to build ultra high-speed broadband networks.

Those networks would make Internet more than 100 times faster than what most are used to, according to Google.com. Google is using the experiment to find new ways to make that kind of Internet more accessible and see what people can create, such as new programs and applications, when they have access to such fast connections, according to the Web site.

Residents and government officials can nominate their communities for the experiment, and Google will make its selection later this year.

Google says it is looking for a community that would benefit from the faster Internet and would be willing to help the company carry out its experiment quickly. Google will offer users a “competitive price” for service, but hasn’t decided what that price will be, according to the Web site.

Tim Loyer, a Fishers resident and a Web developer for a Fishers-based nonprofit, thinks Fishers would be a good place to experiment with high-speed Internet because a lot of Indianapolis-area professionals live there and it seems to have several small, Internet-related businesses.

Loyer nominated Fishers and is using his Twitter and Facebook accounts to encourage others to do so.

“Right now, Fishers residents don’t have a ton of choices when it comes to Internet access,” Loyer said in an e-mail. “The fact that Google is doing this will open the consumer’s eyes to the fact that greater speeds are possible and that what they are paying for right now is mediocre service at best.”

Loyer’s viral campaign has caught some attention. He guessed that two or three others already have nominated Fishers.

David Radcliffe, a Brownsburg resident who works in Fishers, said he plans to nominate Fishers, too. Fishers has his vote because he might move there and he thinks it has a better chance of being selected than Brownsburg, mostly because its population is larger.

It’s uncertain what will come from the experiment, but if it helps get faster Internet to consumers, it would be well worth the effort, Radcliffe said.

“If it would expand, then that would be huge,” Radcliffe said. “It’s much faster than everything else out there.”

To nominate

To nominate a community for Google’s high-speed Internet experiment, visit www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi...>