I hope all journalism majors are sitting up and reading this carefully. This is how you make a nice imaginative story out of a small interview. A good story/link bait needs something in desperate need ('lousy code'). Then it needs a hero ('gopher team'). Then it needs a title which will catch people's attention (people can't help reading about 'google'). Creative journalism at it's best.

In case it isn't clear, the only store here is that one guy wrote Google's download server in Go because it was not working well. That's it, that's the only story. Google doesn't send some task force or anything like that.