"What is Bitcoin?" Is Google's 4th Most Searched "What is...?" Term of 2014
Google, the most popular online search engine everywhere in the world (except for China) has revealed its highly anticipated search lists for the year 2014. With the year's data collection close to an end, "What is Bitcoin?" is officially the 4th most searched for "What is...?" term of 2014. Google's other lists for 2014 can be found here. In 2013, "What is Bitcoin?" was the 10th most searched "What is...?" term. The number one searched for "What is...?" term for 2014 was none other than Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), likely due to the #IceBucketChallenge social media campaign. The....
Related News
As the world prepares to say goodbye to another year and Bitcoin nears its sixth birthday, we look back at one of the more memorable and eventful year of Bitcoin's history. A year in which Bitcoin began to mature and, just like a six year old child going to school for the first time, left his home to meet the world and learn how to deal with hostile strangers, authoritative teacher regulators and make many, many new friends. 2014 is the year when Bitcoin was thrown into the sea to sink or swim and was tested to its limits to only come back stronger than ever before. The shark of MT Gox and....
Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the biggest stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News. This week, the bitcoin price declined quite a bit before changing course upwards, “What is Bitcoin?” was the 4th most searched “What is…” term on Google, we interviewed johoe – the white hat hacker who swiped and then returned over 800 bitcoins to Blockchain.info after learning about their security vulnerability, and more. Keep reading for this week’s top stories in Bitcoin news. For most of this week, the bitcoin price has been on a downwards trend, despite....
You know something has achieved some level of popularity when it enters the top 500 searches on Google Trends. Never mind hitting the top 100 searches - that just means you're really popular. So it's probably no surprise that 'bitcoin' just so happens to have made the top 100 Google searches of 2013. This hobby-turned-investment-vehicle hit the spotlight first in April when it achieved an all-time high of $260+ USD. It then came back into the limelight in November, when the price topped a whopping $1200 per unit. As the mainstream media began to cover the incredible returns early adopters....
Google Lists Bitcoin Exchange Rate. Today is a big day for Bitcoin in some respects. While no multi-million dollar investments in Bitcoin startups have been announced today (yet, I can never be too sure nowadays), two large online presences have given Bitcoin serious internet "cred." Google, the world's favorite web search engine, has finally implemented the Bitcoin Exchange Rate into their automatic Financial Data Listings that come up automatically when you input certain terms into Google. Now, anyone around the world can simply Google '1 USD to BTC' and you'll be able to see the most....
Dogecoin was the fourth-most popular news on Google in 2021 both globally and in the United States. Major cryptocurrencies Ether (ETH) and Dogecoin (DOGE) made the list of the world’s most searched terms in 2021 on GoogleOn Tuesday, Google released its traditional annual list of the top searches for the year, breaking them down into several categories, including searches, news, people, games, movies and others.According to Google Trends’ “Year in Search 2021,” Dogecoin was the fourth-most popular news search term on Google in 2021, both globally and separately in the United States. News....