Internet search trends about the Metaverse

Abstract

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.