The new Earth app aside, it's been a rough week for Google. There was the human error search result blocking, the spam filter issue, the trial of four execs in Italy, and now this--accidental text spam. Last night the company accidentally slammed users with SMS messages.

According to Search Engine Roundtable, around 30 texts were sent to hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of users between 8:30 p.m. and 12:40 a.m. After batting around the blame for the issue for a bit, Google finally issued the following statement:

After investigating this issue, the cause seems to be related to an error with the mobile aggregator used by many mobile providers. We've received confirmation that a fix is going out soon.