The following is a graph of public search interest in Bitcoin, Steem and Steemit since 2009.
As you can see, "Steemit" and "Steem" never register beyond 0 on this graph. Even the earliest Bitcoin bubbles register up to 3 (on a scale to 100) compared to the latest peak in Bitcoin interest.
The market cap of Steem is currently above $1 billion. It is hovering around where Bitcoin was for most of 2013. Yet search interest has never matched.
Can we draw any conclusions from this fact?
For comparison, some of the other top cryptos are more than just a flat line at 0:
Cardano is literally nothing more than a whitepaper and has generated a market cap above $10 Billion and more search interest than Steem ever did.