[flavoie]

Seriously? Every time I heard someone mention Go, they linked it to google to make it sounds as big as possible.

[dagw]

Seriously! When I first started hearing about Go, it was always in the context of Ken Thompson's new language (that he wrote while working at Google).

[burgerbrain]

Yes seriously. Ken Thompson's involvement in it is mentored, often exaggerated, in just about every introduction piece I see about it.

And to be brutally honest, its the only reason I initially even gave it a glance.