What could be more delightful than a combination of puppies and porn? Wait, not like that … like on Yahoo! yesterday, when any search term typed into their engine would only turn up pictures of couples copulating.

The bug only lasted a few hours, so unfortunately you’ll just get puppies if you search for “puppies” now. But, as the crisis happened, Yahoo! was alerted to the porno Easter eggs by an article on Techcrunch that confirmed that any term on Yahoo!’s main ‘Web’ search engine would lead to graphic closeups on its integrated image results. By 6:10 PM PST, a panicked Yahoo! had put a temporary Band-Aid on the problem by removing all images—puppies and porn—from its search engine results. The company then issued a terse apology: “Yahoo! experienced issues with some of our image search results for a short period yesterday. We worked with Microsoft to correct the issue quickly and apologize to users who were affected.”

The bizarre technological hiccup happens after Yahoo reportedly fired 500 people, nearly 4% of its workforce, so not just a few voices in the blogosphere are speculating that the glitch was sabotage from a disgruntled ex-worker. Or maybe a sinister puppy-porn virus.

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