Topic: How do you interprete this? (Read 600 times)

It seems like you’re observing a shift in market dynamics. While historically, increased Google searches often correlate with rising prices, the current bullish trend may indicate that institutional investors are driving the market instead of the general public.

This could mean that everyday investors haven’t fully engaged yet, potentially leading to a future surge in searches if they start to FOMO in.

What are your thoughts on the role of institutional investors in the current crypto market?

If  the current bull is resulting from institutional actions, then I think it's a very good one to hop on because by the time the public will be on it, the trend must have been exhausted and the institutions will be selling so what will be if them will be that they are going to be selling which will lead to a supposed deep momentarily but if you have been on now, you too should be taking profits at the time, usually that's how the system works so for institutions to make profits, the push the price up to the point the market looks very attractive and bring in the general public where by FOMO is created them they sell off and make some good profits off the moves.

My guess is it is because they are now aware that prices won't be displayed anymore on the search results, so they just stopped doing it. Even me, I don't do it anymore but I'm still quite disappointed of what happened. Anyways, I read an article last time about the real cause of it. Something has to do with a website. I mean if Google just display everything on their home screen, other platforms may look useless because people won't have a reason to visit them anymore. So after all, what Google did is still correct. Bitcoin is not new and many of us already know what it is or where to head if we want something specific about it.

A small opinion check from the peeps who use this opportunity from Google.. This thought is good and it's at least the one I can believe into 

It was definitely gone for a time you just didn't notice it because it was for such a short duration. As you have noticed the bitcoin price metric was back. My guess is that google was trying to guage how much noise would result in the disconnection of that price chart, I think they have found that the community is most definitely in favor of it.

Most of the time, I do use google too to search for the price of Bitcoin and it usually show me the price on the first page, even as I saw this topic, I rushed to experiment it and I see that the price is yet shown on the first page. Just like you said, the issue must have been cause by technical problem or just a readjustment by google.

I didn't notice anything as such when searched on the google ,everything did show up with the price chart ,even without me having to go click on the finance table as mentioned by Don Pedro Dinero.
Maybe this could be some sort of setting with your browser or error you've been unable to detect.

A lot could be responsible for that, and just as Dave mentioned it could be some setting as related to Ad blocker and the rest of the other factors that could be responsible for this filtering in the available price results on google, although there have been some attacks on the popularity of Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency industry which have made some social public service providers like Facebook and Google to block ads related to cryptocurrency on their platform.


Any ways on the long run, we are going to be seeing changes and for sure alot will fall into place and all this limits will definitely fade away along the line.

If you will find out what was the cause of it, tell us about it - that would be interesting to discover. Thanks for your experience.  For everybody, there are different cases of viewing the chart.

It seems to me that the expectations from each new halving are getting higher and higher because the number of those who invest in BTC is obviously increasing - but what people cannot understand is that halving does not mean an automatic increase in the price that some clearly ill-informed media are promoting.

History repeats itself only with some new numbers - those who not so long ago bought under $50k are enjoying the moment, those others are wondering if the bull run has started or is this just another trap.

Just seeing this thread and checking, but i don't see any changes from my own end, everything is as it used to be and i have read through the thread to see that there are users like me. Those who initially experienced the changes should check again, i believe theirs should also be the way it should.
I believe so too, if the price crosses $70k and stays above that, people would know that what's next is $80k and above and that is really high, and it should trigger FOMO amongst people who are waiting for BTC price to be bullish before they buy.

I agree with Don Pedro Dinero that the limitation is probably region-based and perhaps related to some EU restrictions or whatever. In my country, when I google "Bitcoin" or "Bitcoin price", I immediately get the price chart (in local fiat, but it's in USD if I add the word "USD" to my google search), just like before. So the limitation isn't a worldwide policy by Google. Similarly, search results for locations include maps in my country, and I wasn't aware that there were limitations on it elsewhere.

BTC price and btc to usd give me all the info.

EXCEPT when I am logged into chrome with an account that is part of a domain that I support for a customer.

I'm wondering if it's some setting in a Google account perhaps business and / or personal that causes some filtering / changes.

Some odd settings in some ad block or similar software?

But for me same browser. No account it's fine, my account it's fine, small corporate account not there....

All US based if that matters.

-Dave

Yeah, and it was made basically just to fud about it, in my opinion. Hence way that's the opinion he wrote about: to get attention to what he thought

coinmarketcap is a good place to do any similar kind of search about Bitcoin price and any other prices someone would like to check, though searching Bitcoin directly is also nice because it has some unique ways of getting any kind of Bitcoin calculation you want because if you have use the direct search before you will see that it has already calculated what one unit of Bitcoin is worth on your fiat currency and for those who have an amount of money on their fiat to invest on Bitcoin can find it very easy in calculating it from there to know what they would have in Bitcoin after buying but for coinmarketcap the person will have to go through the stress of punching their calculator before they can get the information they need, so if not for the Google adjustment it would have been good for inexperience people to use the direct search in checking the price.

No one should trust what Google does or doesn't show as search results, and if you care about privacy then you should use other search engines. As for regular people, as always, they are the last to react, I have no doubt that this will be the case this time as well. The data on the inflow into spot ETFs say that 2 days ago we had 8400 BTC, and on two occasions another 3700 and 4100 BTC, which means that large investors are intensifying their activities, which is obviously reflected in the price.

Looks like the price will still have to cross $70k and stay there for a while to trigger FOMO.

Oh so that's where it went. I've been wondering where it was the past few days since it was my go-to whenever I wanted to quickly check on the market.

On checking though, Maybe the live tracking API that Google had just temporarily went down? Rechecked it (both desktop and mobile) and the chart once again appears, so it doesn't seem like Google intentionally moved it or anything. Took quite some time to restore it hence why Mr FUD journalist here probably made the article lol.

For me, when I write "BTC to USD", it's still working and is not hidden, though, some say that it's just hidden in the "Finance" tab

Having this in the first page of results was really handy for doing quick conversions. This didn’t just affect Bitcoin but altcoins also. Sometimes I want to know the exchange rate for different coins to see if I’m getting a fair price when buying things with crypto or when doing a swap between different coins. Whatever caused this technical issue, it has already been fixed by Google.

The guy, who wrote this cryptonews.com article is completely wrong, or maybe he is trying to spread FUD.
I get the Bitcoin to USD real time price chart on both Microsoft Bing Search and Google Search. The guy probably had problems with this laptop or something. The weird thing is that sometimes when I search for "BTC for USD" on both Google and Bing, the price chart disappears, but it shows up again after a day or two. Maybe Google and Microsoft are updating their search engines and this causes temporary changes in the search results.

I don't search Bitcoin price directly instead I searched coinmarketcap from then I go directly to site to check my bitcoin price.
Sometimes it's mostly happens to a newly buy device, when you search some things only you wouldn't get the information, but with an old device that you have been surfing the net with would quickly display the results you searched. I believe this could be as a result of browsing history or cache history on your device or PC.

In this upcoming bull run or every news came from internet and once people see the potential again of the bitcoin for sure the search and statistics will show up again in their recommendations and people again will curious. Well this most likely happens if theres a big event like the price of the bitcoin pump or likely politicians like trump support and about the outcome of the bitcoin if he win this coming election.

Very well right on the fact that the traditional financial landscape is under control of the government and with that there will be constant tension as regards to cryptocurrency, and at most many factors will be employed just to undermined Access to such information as regards to Bitcoin, this could be a deliberate attempt and also a negation to how oftentimes more and more people have access to direct information as regards to Bitcoin, although whatever appears on Google search is what other internet users post's about such subject and is time it shows less people are making comments in the internet as regards to Bitcoin price predictions.
Many will think that Bitcoin is over Priced with it currently increasingly high value, many now attempt to shift attention to other coins that are just short term trends that may likely not stay for long before faddin out in most cases, so let be clear with, why the decrease in search demands for Bitcoin Price on google, but still nothing to worry about as this doesn't make any impact on Bitcoin popularity in any ways.
I don't think so, because google search can not represent such a data that their is limits to access to Bitcoin and it informations, because value present demands and such it clear that since Bitcoin value is still at high price it significantly means that alot More are having Access to Bitcoin and a lot of buy order now exceeding the sell orders, this show's the growing interest in Bitcoin.

You know i'm not sure what they're trying to do with this here but it seems a little fishy. At the end of the day I don't really give a crap whether or not google displays the price or not it just makes me revert back to coin market cap which is better anyways. If anything I think its an opportunity for someone to think of a clever landing page / conversion chart on BTC or something. Personally I favor Clark Moody tho, that breakdown is very pleasing to the eye, for any conversions tho just use a calculator, duh

I don't believe in Google result because many times they don't give a right result that I want. We can not say that the searches for Bitcoin have dropped because that will depends on the keyword that people use. If you use the other keyword, maybe you will get different results.

People now just not use one keyword as their based search and they tend to use more keyword to find what they want. Besides that, with the growing of social media such as Tiktok, Instagram, X, FB and others makes people have more various ways to find something. So we can not say that the searches from Google dropped than the last years but we should find out from the other websites. But we already see what happen to Bitcoin today where the price increase and there is a tends to still increase.

Hopefully, that will happen and we will see the above of $70k. So we should wait and prepare ourselves for the coming of bull run.

I use Google whenever I need to know the USD or local fiat price of a certain amount of Bitcoin or even top altcoins. I just did it now and it isn't gone. It's still there. It's very handy. I don't even have to click search or press enter. It comes out right away. So I haven't noticed what's being disabled or what.





Anyway, it seems to me the general public seldom starts a bull run. Often, there's something big that happens first before the rest of them start getting into FOMO. There needs to be a significant initiator before the flock do their own thing and a trend is created.

We can speculate why but we would never know the reason behind Google's decision. It could be because of regulations but maybe it is just to avoid people who are not really interested in bitcoin's price but is interested in seeing some articles or just generally want to learn about crypto or bitcoin. Google caters to the people and we know that they have the most sophisticated technology so they probably checked their data. How many people searching for bitcoin actually wants to see the price and how many are looking for something else.

If it is because of regulations, should it be different per region or country? Why would Google implement something because of a regional organization all over the world?

As for me, i don't think there is a need for me going through google in most cases before i could get the accurate search needed for me to achieve, either on speculations or any other related crypto updates, because there are enough platforms there to make use of, which can be as accurate as what we have expected to see from them, while from the use of google, they may only provide us with random response which may not best fit in our demands.

I noticed that googl no longer shows the price and market data by default when you search btc to usd. How I interpret this is nothing since they only hide it. I don't usually use it before but I did use it to for comparison to other platforms between their prices and such. If Google will show it once again then nothing happens at all. As I have said, people wil only use it to know the price and maybe make an analysis about its price movements.

Hmmmm, i don't think doing google searches about Bitcoin price is the best way to go about it .
There are many crypto exchanges that could give you the prices just the way it is.
And I don't think because you don't seem to see Bitcoin price search results in Google means that people are slowly loosing interest in Bitcoin!🥱

I don't use Google to see the price, but I like de conversion tool, that way we can search for "Doge to Btc" and Google let us see the doge price in btc. For me is a quick tool to find the other coins price, but as other users mentón, this is not the right tool for that propose, we should use tools like coinmarketcap.

I guess it has been restored because it was not like that before. I usually use Google to check the price and never need to click on the finance icon to get the price. But it changed a few days ago that you cannot see the price on the first page. But after seeing this thread I checked and saw that it has been restored to the first page. Maybe it was a technical issue from Google.

I never used google to look for the current Bitcoin price even when I was a newbie. That is beyond amateur-level, that is 90 year old using a computer for the first time level of amateur.  

I think most newbies at the very least know to set up a widget that continually shows the price or an app that they can easily access, especially if they are using a crypto exchange for their Bitcoin dealings.

I checked from my phone in the Safari browser, and I was able to see the price directly on the first page only. I don’t think these search changes happened in the Asia region at least. Though I haven’t checked this from my PC. But the main concern is why this happened with other guys? I don’t think the reduction in the search frequencies has any direct relation to this update. Nevertheless, we need to do more research about this.

This might be a minor inconvenience for some, but it's also a reminder that the crypto landscape is constantly evolving. Possibly reflecting the ongoing tensions between traditional finance and the growing crypto world.

The decrease in search volume for Bitcoin aligns with historical data, which suggests that low search interest often precedes significant price increases. Market stagnation can present prime opportunities for investors.

It sparks curiosity about the motivations behind this move, could it be an attempt to limit easy access to crypto data, or simply a strategic shift?

Well it has not been removed but moved under the finance tab as correctly pointed out by Don Pedro Dinero. But it's good. Because Google always used to show less price than actual when compared to CMC website. I am sure their algorithm works differently and using different sources for the pricing data but it was always less than what CMC is showing. With the bullish trend, people might start to FOMO in.

Yea I dont see the big deal with whether google has changed the way it displays
Bitcoins market price. I dont use google for that as I'm sure the majority of
people dont either. Personally i use and have bookmarked on all my devices >
https://cryptopurview.com/live-price/

Almost everyone would be checking on their waller or whatever exchange they use.
Its only those who are not yet in Bitcoin who would use google search I suspect.

I thought it was a browser issue or my IP address, after reading the article they made changes in the price but I can still search using any bitcoin address and get the balance.


They removed the option from Google in the past you could search using 0.2 btc to usd and get a result.

It just got stopped now, and I never saw such an interface before. I searched the price of BTC many times but never showed the graphs and other stuff and even how much 1 BTC is in my local currency (converter) too. But after reading Don Pedro Dinero's post I tried the finance sector and the very first time after searching this keyword I saw such results. This is new for me even if it gets stopped now why have they never shown to my interface before?

Well, I can't disagree with you because Google first allowed the ads of crypto and it also brought many investors to them and they obviously make money from ads too. I still think BTC is in a bullish state but yeah the real hype was in April and from that point to now those searches might be reducing due to the shift from a bullish trend to bearish which I said I still think is bullish. These institutions really plays an important role but I think the general public has jumped on the hype already and most of them are already even out from it.

Price is not bullish though. It is more like side way where price neither goes up nor down and both! Remember that going from $60k to $65k is not exactly bullish trend. Breaking $70k is.
This explains why the searches have dropped as well. People don't really search about bitcoin when it is not on top of the news saying it has soared or crashed!

This doesn't really have any significance in my opinion. Fetching the price from price reporting sources like preev, exchanges, coinmarketcap like websites, etc. is far better. Seeing charts on tradingview is also far more useful.

This is very simple, if the search for Bitcoin on Google dropped, it signified that quite a good number of Google search users already know about Bitcoin and know where to get all the necessary informations on daily basis, take for example, if you really want to know the accurate Bitcoin Price, searching for it through Google may give you an inaccurate price based on short term purpose since it need to be manually updated at intervals of time.


So if I am looking to know how much Bitcoin is worth in the market, I won't be using google Rather I will go through exchange to know the right price.

Thirdly google is not so used by cryptocurrencies trader's since they may not be having need for it and that makes the traffic to the search engine low lately, so we need to understand all that.

I am one of those that are googling for bitcoin price. 

Years ago, when I completely switched to hodl mode, I removed all price tracking apps from my mobile phone and price tracking websites from my bookmarks because I wanted to stop obsessing over bitcoin price. One of the best crypto decisions I've ever made.

I also tried searching for prices and browsing on Google with the keyword today's btc price usd and the display is the same as what has been seen from the post @Don Pedro Dinero. I think there is a connection and usually they will enter exactly like the current conditions. Personal purchases are also busy coming to buy BTC. I just take the positive from the good movement in the last few days and at least the acceleration of price increases can continue to increase amidst the atmosphere hit by various economic and geopolitical issues today.

It's true that google searches for Bitcoin have dropped but it's not a major reason why the price has gone up. The people's interest are still there but it's not a big information for everyone to look at the bull run based on this factor.

They could be but one thing is, this is the normal cycle that we're having. Although we cannot deny that the institutional investors play a big part in this because of the bitcoin spot etfs. And if the price skyrockets, the bandwagon for the new interest will come for sure but don't expect too much from them.

Yeah, I noticed this too but it was not like this before. Before, once you search 'Bitcoin price" on Google it takes you immediately to the live chart with the Bitcoin price in my local currency and a space to check the price in any other currency. Now you have to go to the finance side. It's not as smooth as it used to be.

I might not have noticed this because I don't use Google to know the price of bitcoin, I used coinmarketcap, but that Google feature was good for when I'm discussing bitcoin with newbies or people who don't really understand what bitcoin is.

Well in my opinion just because the search dropped doesn't necessarily mean people are less interested in it despite the decrease there has still been a significant amount of search i believe that this actually shows that Bitcoin has matured alot unlike before where people didn't have much idea about it and everyone wanted to know what it's all about people now know more about it and its no longer something new to the world
You can easily walk to hundred people and ask them do you know what bitcoin is although they might not have a deep understanding but I'm certain that atleast 80 out of that 100 will say yes
On the under hand if you asked them about some meme coin they will probably not know about it because they are new and are yet to gain the maturity of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin
And you can easily get the price of Bitcoin from different places aside google like coingecko so to me that doesn't really matter

If I search Bitcoin price, top results are from Binance, Coinmarketcap, Coingecko, Coindesk, Tradingview, Crypto.com. Good enough and I don't find big issue with Google change on their searching result display.

Google for Bitcoin price is for newbies, outsiders but Bitcoiners know where to get its price one cryptocurrency websites like Coinmarketcap, Coingecko and exchange applications if they have them on mobile devices.

I interpret the news as misinterpreting it. They have not disappeared, they are just not shown by default, and now you have to go to the ‘finance’ tab to see it.



Then you see this.



I wouldn't be surprised if it had to do with some EU measure, and I say this as my own speculation, but something similar happened recently. Before, when you searched for a street, it immediately showed you google maps and now, due to an EU antitrust measure, it no longer shows it and you have to search for it from the app or add ‘maps’ to the name of the street you are looking for.

Google Search Stops Displaying Bitcoin and Crypto Price Data


Just remembered, the last time Google search trends lined up with Bitcoin’s price was during the bull run. Back then, Google searches were used to gauge people’s interest in investing. Recently, it was reported that searches for Bitcoin have dropped, yet the price is still bullish. What’s going on here? When we think of Google searches, it’s usually driven by regular folks. But with the price soaring, could it be that institutional investors are behind the bullish trend, while the general public hasn’t jumped on the hype yet? Or maybe we’ll soon see a surge in searches as people start to FOMO in?