diff --git a/builtin/providers/google/resource_compute_disk.go b/builtin/providers/google/resource_compute_disk.go
index 198e8cdd3..18fc9d04f 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/google/resource_compute_disk.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/google/resource_compute_disk.go
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ func resourceComputeDiskCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
 
 	if v, ok := d.GetOk("snapshot"); ok {
 		snapshotName := v.(string)
-		match, _ := regexp.MatchString("^http", snapshotName) 
+		match, _ := regexp.MatchString("^https://www.googleapis.com/compute", snapshotName) 
 		if match {
 		  disk.SourceSnapshot = snapshotName
 		} else {