Search giant Google, Inc. went offline for 15 minutes from 3:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, which not only took the search engine offline, but also its e-mail service.

"It was not a hacking or a security issue," said David Krane, Spokesman for Google to the Associated Press. According to the search company, it was purely a Domain Name System, or DNS, issue that knocked out its website.

Although Google maintains that no hacking attempts were the cause of the outage, many users stated that they were being routed to SoGoSearch.com during the specified timeframe.

Google said its engineers are looking into the issue for further investigation and informed that all its global properties are back online and working perfectly. "Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time. We've remedied the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide," said Krane in a statement.