is bitcoin bigger than we think? - page 4.

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Quote from: Meni Rosenfeld on October 27, 2013, 12:24:47 AM

I think that Bitcoin is as big as I think it is - a $2B economy with >10K businesses and hundreds of thousands of users.

Based on data from http://www.similarweb.com/website/bitcointalk.org, it looks like the forum gets about 1M pageviews per day.

Quote from: Elwar on October 27, 2013, 12:03:08 AM

Google:
how do I buy

look at what comes up

You do know that Google search results and autocomplete are targeted? If you look at Bitcoin all day, it will give you Bitcoin-related results... It has little to do with Bitcoin's popularity.

^ this

I though people already knows this

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Quote from: dree12 on October 27, 2013, 02:22:07 PM

I tried to throw off personalized search by changing the wording a little. No Bitcoin, unfortunately Sad

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http://i.imgur.com/21czu9Q.png

I tried your search and I still get "bitcoins" in the list. Also opened a web browser I never use (Safari) and I also get it there.

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Quote from: Ford on October 27, 2013, 12:00:02 AM

all 4 above sites are climbing fast too (much faster than most sites)!

It means they will have huge problem in the capacity of infrastructure soon Roll Eyes

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Quote from: btceic on October 27, 2013, 10:38:12 AM

Quote from: Elwar on October 27, 2013, 12:03:08 AM

Google:
how do I buy

look at what comes up

Amazing, skyrim seems still popular, I even have a dragon sculpture collection for the game Cheesy

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I tried to throw off personalized search by changing the wording a little. No Bitcoin, unfortunately Sad

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Google:
how do I buy dollars (What is this?)

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Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on October 27, 2013, 01:41:10 PM

Quote from: kriwest on October 27, 2013, 11:02:21 AM

Looking in google keyword planner, it shows bitcoin has 830k searches per month on average. Which is a lot more than I expected.
On the other hand, minecraft has 10 million searches per month.

adding bitcoin to minecraft would be also a nice thing Wink

someone made a bitcoin casino in minecraft a while back

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Quote from: tvbcof on October 27, 2013, 01:29:49 AM

Quote from: BitChick on October 27, 2013, 12:12:59 AM

I get "How do I buy on ebay" as my first response.

Buying Bitcoins does show up forth on my list though.

First on my list seems to be 'a handjob.' How bizarre. Clicking on it shows instructions starting with acquiring BTC though so I guess Bitcoin really is taking off.

As meni said: autocomplete is targeted to your personal needs.

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Quote from: kriwest on October 27, 2013, 11:02:21 AM

Looking in google keyword planner, it shows bitcoin has 830k searches per month on average. Which is a lot more than I expected.
On the other hand, minecraft has 10 million searches per month.

adding bitcoin to minecraft would be also a nice thing Wink

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Mine Silent, Mine Deep

Google suggest is based on personalized search. People interested in bitcoin will see more bitcoin related suggestions.

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Looking in google keyword planner, it shows bitcoin has 830k searches per month on average. Which is a lot more than I expected.
On the other hand, minecraft has 10 million searches per month.

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Quote from: btceic on October 27, 2013, 10:38:12 AM

Quote from: Elwar on October 27, 2013, 12:03:08 AM

Google:
how do I buy

look at what comes up

Lol, we're moving up in the ranks!

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♫ A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw ♫

Quote from: jaime on October 27, 2013, 07:52:10 AM

Quote from: Meni Rosenfeld on October 27, 2013, 12:24:47 AM

I think that Bitcoin is as big as I think it is - a $2B economy with >10K businesses and hundreds of thousands of users.

Based on data from http://www.similarweb.com/website/bitcointalk.org, it looks like the forum gets about 1M pageviews per day.

Quote from: Elwar on October 27, 2013, 12:03:08 AM

Google:
how do I buy

look at what comes up

You do know that Google search results and autocomplete are targeted? If you look at Bitcoin all day, it will give you Bitcoin-related results... It has little to do with Bitcoin's popularity.

AFAIK targeting is done only for language, location... and previous searches only if you allow Google to keep your search history.

It may not matter if it is or isn't targeted, if a user who does not search all day long for bitcoin such as us sees or hears about this, then they may out of curiosity do a search for this. If it doesn't show for them they may then autocomplete their own sentence with the word bitcoin, causing a semi self fulfilling prophecy, either way it's good for bitcoin.

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♫ A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw ♫

Quote from: Elwar on October 27, 2013, 12:03:08 AM

Google:
how do I buy

look at what comes up

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I belive that users who use btc will double until next 6 months XD

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Quote from: BitchicksHusband on October 27, 2013, 05:04:51 AM

Actually, autocomplete for me was "how do I buy bitcoin" and I typically block google-analytics with NoScript.

Well I guess we know how well noscript blocks cookies then.

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Quote from: Hfleer on October 27, 2013, 07:28:35 AM

That's pretty impressive. Is there a way to see how many times search terms involving the word Bitcoin were done, and the growth of this?

trends.google.com

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Try to google
how do i buy+
the "+" starts a so-called verbatim search that is not (or at least not as much) influenced by your previous searches.

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Quote from: Inedible on October 27, 2013, 07:39:04 AM

...oh, wait. I hadn't cleared my cookies

Embarrassed

LOL.

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Quote from: Meni Rosenfeld on October 27, 2013, 12:24:47 AM

I think that Bitcoin is as big as I think it is - a $2B economy with >10K businesses and hundreds of thousands of users.

Based on data from http://www.similarweb.com/website/bitcointalk.org, it looks like the forum gets about 1M pageviews per day.

Quote from: Elwar on October 27, 2013, 12:03:08 AM

Google:
how do I buy

look at what comes up

You do know that Google search results and autocomplete are targeted? If you look at Bitcoin all day, it will give you Bitcoin-related results... It has little to do with Bitcoin's popularity.

AFAIK targeting is done only for language, location... and previous searches only if you allow Google to keep your search history.

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