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"Go" matches to many things unrelated to the programming language. Golang is more likely to match specifically the programming language.


Similar to how many people back in the day used "csharp" instead of C# so search engines could actually find things.


It didn’t help that search engines would “helpfully” ignore the sharp symbol (octothorp) and show results for just “c”




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