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Google experienced a glitch on Saturday morning when the message, "This site may harm your computer," was displayed next to every single Google search result.

Google blames the glitch on human error. On the Official Google Blog, VP, Marissa Mayer explains.

 "Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file."

"Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes."

Google partners with non-profit StopBadware.org to flag sites that are known to install malicious software. Saturday's glitch caused the StopBadware site to crash as millions of users attempted to visit the site to find out more information.

From the StopBadware blog, "Despite today's glitch, we continue to support Google's effort to proactively warn users of badware sites, and our experience is that they are committed to doing so as accurately and as fairly as possible."