On Wikipedia, Bitcoin Was the Ninth Most Visited Page for 2017.
According to Wikipedia’s annual report the 50 most visited pages on the website, bitcoin ranked ninth for 2017. The report states that the page was visited 15,026,561 times during 2017 and describes bitcoin as "the much-hyped 'future of money'", adding that the world’s first cryptocurrency "has turned into the most speculative intangible asset of all time." Traffic for bitcoin’s Wikipedia page peaked on the 8th of December – when BTC experienced a dramatic retracement of approximately 20%, falling from the then all-time high of $17,171 USD on Bitfinex, before bouncing off the approximately $14,000 area.
The volume of Google searches conducted for prominent keywords pertaining to bitcoin has also produced dramatic growth – with the latest data from Google indicating that numerous major keyword groupings received between one million and ten million searches each month on average during 2017.
The data indicates that monthly searches relating to the keywords 'bitcoin price' saw an increase of over 1,000% on average during January 2017 to December 2017 when compared with data from the previous year, whilst searches pertaining to 'bitcoin chart' increased by 934%, and searches for 'bitcoin USD' increased by more than 800%.
Google estimates that each of the aforementioned keyword groupings received between 1 and 10 million searches on average each month during 2017 – a significant increase compared to the 100,000 and 1,000,000 monthly searches Google estimates were conducted each month during 2016.
A large number of dominant keyword groupings pertaining to bitcoin received between 100,000 and 1,000,000 searches monthly last year. Among those that experienced the highest growth when compared with 2016 were 'current bitcoin' – for which searches increased by 895.9%, 'btc price' – which increased by 828.5%, sell bitcoins – gaining in volume by 626.5%, bitcoin miner – up 590.6%, btc rate – up 510.4%, bitcoin calculator – up 471.2%, bitcoin rate – up 461.4%, buy bitcoin – up 273.5%, and bitcoin trading – up 170.9%. Searches for 'earn bitcoin' increased by 74.6%. Several notable keywords also grew to receive between 10,000 and 100,000 searches last year, including 'bitcoin market' – which increased in search volume by 900%, 'btc chart' – searches for which grew by 826.2%, 'currency bitcoin' – with searches increasing by 826.1%, 'purchase bitcoin' – which increased by 752.5%, and 'bitcoin account' – increasing by 291.2%.
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