Microsoft to buy Google?!

Anyone else heard about this? A few articles to check out -

the motley fool

http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/11/01/cngoog01.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2003/11/01/ixfrontcity.html

Real or just PR hype for an impending IPO?