Asia-Pacific leads the world in NFT searches on Google
Google searches for “NFT” again overtook “cryptocurrency” queries in September after a significant spike in March. Amid the ongoing nonfungible token (NFT) boom, people in Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries appear to be the most curious about NFTs, according to Google Trends data.Google Trends data shows that China, Singapore and Hong Kong are the three top countries in the world in terms of the number of “NFT” searches on Google over the past year.According to the data, China has posted the highest number of such searches, with the Google search index amounting to 100 points. Singapore and....
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