"Updated: Yet another source says the acquisition discussions are still fairly early stage, and the two companies are also considering working together on a Goo

"Updated: Yet another source says the acquisition discussions are still fairly early stage, and the two companies are also considering working together on a Google real time search engine." Why am I not surprised. Translating the original article through the Techcrunch filter in my brain had already produced the mapping "late stage" -> "early stage or not at all".