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Same here. It took me several paragraphs before I discarded chance it is about golang rewrite of Android.

Reminds me of late 90s Microsoft calling everything .NET

That was actually in the early aughts following renaming everything "{product} 2000" and just before the "{product} XP" craze.

Or their trend of naming new devices "Surface".

Or the trend Apple follows of naming their devices Macs /s

wonder how their Search Quality team feels..

I heard the Search Quality Go team is ok with it.

> What's with Google appending and prepending product names with 'go' willy-nilly!?

_go_ogle?