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Topic: Bahubali, Bollywood, and bitcoin: What Indians Googled in 2017 (Read 115 times)

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Earlier the popularity in India was like this

Cinema - Cricket - Stocks - Politics

Now it is like this

Bitcoins- Cinema - Cricket - Stocks - Politics

More and more people are researching about Bitcoins and investing money in crypto in India. This is reflected in huge number of daily registrations in India. In fact, some exchanges had to stop new registrations completely.  I expect this to only rise in future.
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This is not something strange. Bollywood was always popular in India. Now crypto or bitcoin has also joined it.
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In the Bollywood-crazy country, the south Indian fantasy-action blockbuster, Bahubali 2, was the most searched item all year, according to Google data on the top-trending search terms in 2017. The Telugu and Tamil movie, later dubbed into Hindi and Malayalam, was one of India’s highest-grossing films, with earnings of over Rs1,500 crore..

Searches for the Indian Premier League and cricket scores came in the second and third spots, followed by Bollywood blockbuster Dangal, Half Girlfriend, and others. Hindi film songs dominated the most searched music list as well, along with Despacito, the most popular YouTube video and most streamed song of all time globally..

Bollywood actress Sunny Leone, the most-searched in 2015, lost her spot on the overall most-searched list this year. However, the former adult movie star still led the most-searched entertainers list on Google..

The top entertainers that Indians googled for were: India’s unique identity number Aadhaar, the “free” mobile phone of Jio, and bitcoin dominated the “How to…” searches this year. Searches for the cryptocurrency grew sharply in November just as its value peaked, drawing interest from Indian investors..


https://qz.com/1157860/bahubali-bollywood-and-bitcoin-what-indians-googled-in-2017/
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