[nijave]

Everyone does that. Some random startup "We're used by Google!". More often than not some random engineer signed up for a trial or some tiny department somewhere is using it for some internal thing

[pfannkuchen]

It’s such a tiny hop from there to “has a friend at Google who used it once as a favor”. I hadn’t even considered that people would do such a thing!

[nijave]

I didn't realize the prevalence until I worked at a company trying to get enterprise market share desperate to "add logos" (the customers were always referred to as "logos" if that tells you anything)