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It's a reference to a very old (and since removed, at least in my version) Chrome Easter egg where Chrome Task Manager had a hidden column called "Goats Teleported".

See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31482



Actually both are references to a very old game (Castlevania), which contained the mythical Goat Teleporter. It became a sort of internal Google meme/in-joke used whenever you needed some arbitrary object in an example. Goat teleporters show up in a few places in Google-external material, not just Chrome and Android. I recall them being occasionally mentioned when I worked there too, though it's been many years and I forget exactly how it got started.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/196885-castlevania-symphony...

If you search for it you'll find all the references are by Google except one or two (which are probably ex-googlers repeating the meme):

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22goat+teleporter%22




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