Search for wave almost over??

Ok I admit I haven't been involved much in E@H other than having my PCs crunch data when idle. But it sure surprised me to see this article headlined on Fark.com http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/holy-grail-of-physics-within-reach/2005/11/06/1131211949611.html

"The holy grail of physics - gravity waves - is within reach.

If scientists in Europe and the US are right, within months there will be a new way of observing the cosmos, confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity and an unprecedented view of the birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

It all centres on two 600-metre-long corrugated steel pipes emerging at right angles from a grey cabin in the corner of a field in Ruthe, near Hanover, in northern Germany.

The cabin contains the heart of the Anglo-German GEO 600 interferometer, an instrument so sensitive it can detect an object moving one million billionth of a millimetre.

Over the weekend, colleagues at Hanford, in Washington state in the US, switched on the detector that will act in partnership with GEO 600.

The team believes it is just months away from humanity's first detection of gravitational waves - shifts in space and time caused by the movement of massive astronomical bodies."

Is this just an example of reporting for dummies? Or is a breakthrough near? And what is the "new" detector? No mention of the LIGO data at all, I was under the impression that LIGO was an advancement over GEO. That might be off base but it seems pretty odd for there to be a pronouncement that we're less than a year away from a breakthrough when no one has actually proven there is anything to be found.

I'm leaning towards this being a fluff piece by an under informed writer. But is any of this true? If we're really that close that'd be GREAT. But you'd figure someone would have been nice enough to post an update if that were the case.