Google Bug in Searches Spurs Talk of Hacking
A software bug disrupted some Google searches for roughly eight hours early Tuesday, displaying multiple images of what appeared to be a car crash in Russia and sparking speculation that Google had been hacked.
The image displayed in response to many searches showed a badly mangled car near a sign that says "stop" in Russian. It wasn't clear if the image had been altered. It didn't appear on every search.
The episode sparked speculation that the world's most popular search engine might have been infiltrated by hackers trying to spread propaganda related to the fighting in Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russian rebels.
