Google apologizes after Winston Churchill photo disappears from searches for World War II leaders and UK Prime Ministers

Google apologized early Sunday morning in response to user reports of Winston Churchill's photos missing from searches for UK Prime Ministers and World War II leaders, The Independent reports.

Some users are thought to have found that Churchill's photo was appearing blank in search results that appear at the top of the web page.

Google's Search Liaison Twitter account — which includes tweets from the company's "public liaison of search," Danny Sullivan — shares messages with followers about errors, news, and information related to the Google Search tool.

The Search Liaison account wrote that the team was aware of the missing image on Sunday and apologized for the error.

"This was not purposeful & will be resolved," the tweet read.

Google's Search Liaison went on to explain that information of Churchill's first term as UK Prime Minister from 1940 until 1945 didn't seem to appear in search results — but that this was not specific to Churchill, and it was an error that sometimes happens during an update.

"A similar thing happens with Wilson, MacDonald, and Baldwin," Google's Search Liaison said.