Internet search trends about the Metaverse

Araujo Inastrilla, Carlos Rafael ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana
  
  Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana
  
  Cuba
Localización: Metaverse Basic and Applied Research, ISSN-e 2953-4577, Vol. 2, Nº. 0, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Metaverse Basic and Applied Research)
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- Introduction: the metaverse phenomenon is vast and continuously grows and develops. Knowing what position the metaverse has been occupying as a theme on the web allows us to achieve precise results on information needs.
  
  Objective: to characterize the Internet search trends on the metaverse from 2020 to 2022.
  
  Methods: a retrospective longitudinal descriptive study was carried out on Internet searches for the term "Metaverse". The research was carried out with the support of the Google Trends tool.
  
  Results: the interest on the web for the metaverse was high as of October 2021. A tendency to decrease interest in the subject is observed. China was the country with the most significant interest; the term I had the most relationship within searches was "non-fungible token".
  
  Conclusions: It can be concluded that the term generated a high interest that has decreased, in line with the slow reception that technology is having.