Google Search is blocked in China, so anyone using it anyways is using a VPN or some other circumvention mechanism, which likely correlates with interest in stu

Google Search is blocked in China, so anyone using it anyways is using a VPN or some other circumvention mechanism, which likely correlates with interest in stuff like ChatGPT. Google Trends "interest" does not indicate absolute search traffic but is a measure relative to the normal traffic in a region. (If it were absolute, large population centers would always have the most "interest" in everything.)