Saturday morning users of Google read an unusual message "This site may harm your computer." Any user who tried to click through to the result was referred to another page on StopBadware. org causing the site to crash. Millions of users had to face the glitch in the search engine. However, Google has clarified that a human error caused the glitch. The error was witnessed during 6:30AM PST to 7:25AM PST.

Marissa Mayer, Google vice president of search products & user experience, wrote in a blog post, "What happened? Very simply, human error." She said that Google works with StopBadware. org in compiling a list of sites that could harm a user's computer. Unfortunately, a Google employee apparently added a "/" URL, which resolved to every URL in Google's database.

Google has apologized for the error and the inconvenience caused to the users. It has also assured the users and promised to put in place processes to prevent such a mistake to occur again.

Mayer in the blog post thanked the Google team for responding to the problem quickly and efficiently. She wrote. "We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again."

At the same time another clarification has been offered by the manager of StopBadware. org in a blog post on that site stating that the Google glitch was not triggered by StopBadware. org and it was in no way responsible for the confusion caused by the glitch.