Google's list of Safe Browsing Websites says Google.com as a partially dangerous website.
The US search firm's database examines billions of URLs every day, evaluating which sites are safe and which are unsafe to browse.
According to Google, "every day, we discover thousands of new unsafe sites, many of which are legitimate websites that have been compromised."
Google now lists its own Google.com website as potentially dangerous, a Reddit user last night discovered.
The Californian technology company warns that "some pages on this website redirect visitors to dangerous [ones] that install malware on visitors' computers."
It also explains that "some pages on Google.com install malware on visitors' computers", and that "attackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information".
Weirdly, Google's checklist says Bing.com is absolutely fine and does not suffer from the same malware problem.
Google states at the foot of its security checker website, "Don't panic.
"Users sometimes post bad content on websites that are normally safe.
"Safe Browsing will update the safety status once the webmaster has cleaned up the bad content."
It's possible that some users have used Google's services to host malicious content, and the checker hasn't been able to single that out from Google's own content.
The Safe Browsing checker recognises a number of other websites that host user content, including Tumblr and Wordpress, as partially dangerous too.
