Re: is bitcoin bigger than we think?

Quote from: jaime on October 27, 2013, 12:52:10 PM

Quote from: Meni Rosenfeld on October 27, 2013, 05:24:47 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, 05:03:08 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.