No, it was created by a group of distinguished engineers who just wanted to create a language they liked. As I understand it they wanted to improve on C but tak

No, it was created by a group of distinguished engineers who just wanted to create a language they liked. As I understand it they wanted to improve on C but take a radically different direction from C++, which they disliked. Rather than being explicitly designed for problems Google was facing, it took a fair amount of time to find a niche (initially, log processing).