Google searches and news articles worldwide are topping the january 2024 surge

I didn't find stats about news articles but in the last days, the interest in Bitcoin seems to skyrocket. Every big newspaper in Europe seems to cover the topic. This is a front page article in the NZZ (New Zürich Newspaper):

>>\"The banks are simply scared. They have burned their fingers so often in recent years.\" Can Bitcoin now become socially acceptable with the new ETF?<<

Google has found a new local high in interest in bitcoin - surpassing the January spike during the ETF approval. I find it interesting that Nigeria (some call Nigeria the center of the global scam industry) seems to have the highest interest - followed by El Salvador (obviously) and Switzerland (one of the world's financial centers):

Greenlanders want to stay poor

It still doesn't look like a bull market top, not even close. My observations so far:

• after months of no interest at all, I can see many posts asking about crypto on social media like Reddit, even in non-crypto subs
• a surge in articles - even front page coverage of big newspapers
• Crypto seems to replace the AI hype we've seen in the last 2 years, people are already getting bored with it.

What do you think? Do you guys know a source that shows statistics about topics in articles? I couldn't find anything free / public.

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