Why did they go to such lengths to obscure the fact that it's a Google project? I heard about it back when I was a Googler so I knew immediately what it was, but otherwise it was very hard to find any indication that this is a Google led project.
Must be avoiding the stigma of the broken promise not to be evil.
The thing is they have an excellent track record with runnig open source programming languages for over a decade. It's often claimed that Go succeeded only because it was sexy because it was Google. Why hide it here?
Being a benefactor doesn't trump being an abuser at the same time.