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Those of you who perused Google News or did an image search this morning might have noticed a rather odd phenomenon - every image was what appeared to be a Russian car crash.

From the thumbnails that appear alongside news articles to the larger images on Google Image Search, every search this morning returned the same grisly car crash photo - over and over and over.

At first, Google users thought the car crash image was linked to specific queries (pie, monkey, cat). But turns out, it didn't matter what you searched - from puppy to burrito - all queries returned the mangled car photo.

Lame Google Easter Egg in which all image searches are Russian car crash pics. Or Putin owns our Internet now. pic.twitter.com/yLOPIZVjzF — Evan Dashevsky (@haldash) August 26, 2014

By early afternoon, the image problem appeared to be resolved. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but told ZDNet that it was an accident, and joked that "the least we could have done was show everyone micropigs instead."

The violent nature of the image, however, had some questioning whether Google had been hacked. Was a gang of Russian hackers messing with us before we'd even had our morning coffee? Would clicking on the photos of the crash just deliver malware? What does it all MEAN?!

For now, it appears to be a "whoopsies" on the part of Google. Someone on the Reddit thread about the image glitch found the original image, which chronicled a Nov. 2012 car accident in Moscow that killed three people.

The problem did not appear to be centralized, with users from around the globe saying they saw the image, from Canada to Germany.