The Internet search kingpin Google acknowledges a serious bug in the Docs sharing system over the weekend, though little amount of users had been affected: less than 0.05% of the accounts suffered from a bug after the documents were shared “inadvertently” with other users. Actually because of this latest bug some businesses could make a conclusion that pushing their personal information up easily put them under a security risk. Though some presentations were also hit by the error, Google claims that the error was limited to its Docs system within Google Apps and did not affect its spreadsheet system.

Docs product manager Jennifer Mazzon said that the security lapse was “limited to people with whom the document owner, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document.” According to her, very “few users” would have been affected by the bug “because it only could have occurred for a very small percentage of documents, and for those documents only when a specific sequence of user actions took place.”

Google fixed the bug using an “automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents” that had been exposed to the security impediment.

The company has recently been attempting to persuade businesses away from desktop-based Office suites in favor of adopting the company's cloud-based Apps system. From the end of this month authorized resellers will be able to flog, customize and support premium versions of Google Apps.