did I miss this chatter or is it an april1st joke ??

http://www.pandia.com/sew/194-google-buys-the-french-national-libray.html

of course it's a joke!
;-)

The funniest :
"French students are now gathering in the streets for Paris to rally against American capitalism and hard work."
We are fighting for to not have a worse working environment than we have already, not against Americans ;-)