Posted April 1, 2009
Helium.com is proud to announce that we have closed negotiations with Google and are now entering the Google family. This will bring many new benefits to users including premium placement in search results and a 10x increase in earnings – including views, upfront, and empty title bonuses.
As part of this acquisition Helium will stop supporting any browsers except Google Chrome in the next 30 days. If you are not using Chrome, please update now as Helium will not work in any other browser at the end of that time. Also, Zones is being merged with Orkut, Google’s own social networking service. Finally, Helium content will only be found through Google searches – we will no longer support any search traffic from Yahoo, AOL, or other search engines
We here at Helium are very excited about this event. Oh, and April Fool’s!
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April 1, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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April 1, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Yes indeedy,
It was on the news late but I was just amazed. Of course, I shouldn’t have been. Google gobbles up anything that will make money and of course, Helium fits that bill.
Anything to the rumor that our adsense pennies are turning into adsense dollars?
MJ
April 1, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I love it, Eric. You’ve outdone yourself.
April 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Oh! That accounts for the gargantuan increase of revenue on the first day of April. 🙂
Google did it!
April 1, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Sooo – are we changing our name to
Heloogle or Goolium??
:-))
April 1, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Negotiations have been announced for Microsoft to acquire Google and Yahoo, then merge the two.
Do you think this will impact Helium’s relationship with Google? Any truth to the rumor that Microsoft will issue stock options to all Helium members based upon their blue star counts?
Thanks for any light you can shed, Eric!
~Jim
April 2, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Am I the only one that thought this was real for a minute or two?! My first reaction was wohooo more money. and then… omg I’m not changing from using Firefox… how dare they. Then I realized 😉
April 3, 2009 at 3:53 am
Hilarious. But somewhat redundant, too, as the Web 2.0 April Fool’s jokes seem to be very en vogue this year. The Guardian wrote about moving to Twitter, for instance.
Still, quite funny 😀
Goolium…reminds me of “Lord of the Rings”.
April 3, 2009 at 6:59 am
Thanks everyone.
Apologies that it was not more intricate and well thought out. We dropped the ball a bit this year.
Next year though…
April 4, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Good one!
April 6, 2009 at 11:48 am
“Next year though…”
We Chicago Cub fans say that a lot…
April 8, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Lol, I was about to start freaking out calling everyone at Helium sell outs before I figured out it was a April Fools joke.
April 9, 2009 at 2:34 am
When my artificial Intelligence website on Helium zones heard this announcement it rejected the proposal and is going out on its own as weatherballoon.bot ; I tried to stop it…