Revert "Revert "Don't assign 3 different values to the same var. Assign ...

Reverts GigaOM/go-google#5

Original ticket: https://github.com/GigaOM/legacy-pro/issues/3763

I committed to master when I shouldn't have. This reverts my revert and puts the [already code reviewed code](https://github.com/GigaOM/go-google/pull/4) back into master.