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> Google Go, a new app from Google Search

Sigh. Why do they pollute/confuse their existing products/projects? Go (Lang) was already difficult enough to search for on Google.

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Maybe, because the average Indian user has nothing to do with the programming language. However, s/he understands the word Go even if s/he is illiterate?

And the average Indian users will be confused even more than developers, when they search for "Google Go" only to receive results about Go language.

I don't think so. I frequently search for golang related issues, but even then when I search for 'Google go', the golang website is on number 6 and has no other mention on the first page at all. It is the programming language which suffers from poor discover ability. For an average non programming indian, golang might not feature on the first page at all.

that kinda issue disappeared a couple of years ago when google started delivering targeted search results. an average user searching for google go will get google's product before any mention of the go language try it yourself, search for things you'd normally search for using an incognito unsigned into tab and you'll get wildly different search results than what you're used to as a developer/designer

You are forgetting Android Go as well.

And let's not forget Alpha Go.

Go is clearly a go to product name for Google.

Google basically needs to name their apps starting with G or they will be hard to find in a sorted list; is it titled Google Xylophone or just Xylophone? Maybe I'll just use Marimba, I can always remember how to find that. When everything starts with G, it's easy to find.

that's not an actual problem here because the targets are completely different

Are you expecting no developers who reside in India who use Google's Go apps to ever also develop apps using Google's Go language? Can you imagine how difficult it will be for Google Go Search to decide which intent that person had when they search for a Go related topic?

I'm saying that it will be obvious which they are talking about from the context.

I called my mom on Google Go. Probably not Golang, 99.9999999% of the time

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