diff --git a/plugins/Google/plugin.py b/plugins/Google/plugin.py
index 696c0000e..e1b6bee9e 100644
--- a/plugins/Google/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/Google/plugin.py
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ import supybot.callbacks as callbacks
 try:
     simplejson = utils.python.universalImport('json', 'simplejson',
                                               'local.simplejson')
+    # The 3rd party simplejson module was included in Python 2.6 and renamed to
+    # json.  Unfortunately, this conflicts with the 3rd party json module.
+    # Luckily, the 3rd party json module has a different interface so we test
+    # to make sure we aren't using it.
+    if hasattr(simplejson, 'read'):
+        raise ImportError
 except ImportError:
     raise callbacks.Error, \
             'You need Python2.6 or the simplejson module installed to use ' \