I don't know about that. There was this high initial hype around Bakkt, but it was when people were hoping that it could drag Bitcoin out of the bearish market. Moreover, the initial failure of the project probably disappointed a lot of people.
The points about the Google trends algorithms having certain weaknesses that are now exploited seem to make more sense to me.
Oh, and as for that big transaction, it might also be totally unrelated to search results, and the former can be a technical operation by an exchange as people in another discussion thread suggested.