'What is NFT' is one of the most searched topics on the internet Google in 2022

O Google In this final stretch of 2022, it released the report with the most searched topics on the search engine throughout the year. Among the 'what is' category, in Brazil, there is a common theme to the metaverse and web3.0: what is NFT. The peak of Brazilian interest in the topic occurred between January and February, the height of the commercialization of non-fungible tokens around the world.

The popular list of the most searched topics in the Google always brings up unusual topics for discussion, but one in specific was already expected to appear: what is NFT. It turns out that, in this new phase of the web, and with the metaverse in its infancy, many people wanted to understand what it was and the potential of NFTs.

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With a peak in searches recorded in the first three months of the year, people's curiosity was driven by Neymar's acquisition of million-dollar NFTs.

Funneling the information released by the Google, Amapá was where most of the doubts, proportionally, about NFTs in Brazil originated. Followed by Rio de Janeiro and the Federal District. 

Neymar started searching for the monkey's NFT

Another factor that always raises eyebrows when the search list is published is the term that people are searching for. At the time that Neymar acquired NFTs with the digital art of a monkey, for example, internet users went to the Google search: what is monkey NFT and monkey NFT. 

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The curious on the internet were also interested in knowing how to create an NFT. The topic appeared four times among the twenty searched subtopics about NFT.

And you, have you already run to Google also to understand what this NFT is? If you don't know yet, find out here! 

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