April the first, dont ya love it :\
 

http://www.theregister.com/2006/04/0...a_buys_google/

The People's Republic of China has acquired a controlling stake in the
United States' fastest growing technology company, Google.

Google announced the transfer of 140m shares of Class B stock to a new
entity owned by the Chinese Ministry of Information in typically forthright
style. The news was disclosed in a Captcha graphic on its Google Canteen
Menu weblog; investors had to click a hidden link to see the announcement,
and then decode a stenographically-hidden message watermarked into the JPG
file. Once decrypted, the message read:

gee it's raining here in mountain view and my cats hungry so we thought
we'd better update you on our corporate finances. we've sold out to china.
have a great weekend boo-yah!! lol

No other details were forthcoming.