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British take to Google to ask ‘What is the EU?’

Top query to the search engine was ‘What does it mean to leave the EU?’

The third most searched question on the EU was “Which countries are in the EU?”
The third most searched question on the EU was “Which countries are in the EU?”
Sat Jun 25 2016 - 01:00

Hours after the UK voted to leave the European Union, "What is the EU?" became the second top UK Google search on the issue.

Google Trends showed the top query was “What does it mean to leave the EU?”. The third most searched question on the EU was “Which countries are in the EU?”, followed by “What will happen now we’ve left the EU?”.

Completing the top five was the search “How many countries are in the EU?”

Meanwhile, a campaign for a second EU referendum caused the House of Commons petitions website to crash after it experienced a higher volume of simultaneous users than ever before.

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The petition surpassed 140,000 signatures yesterday afternoon.

If a petition receives more than 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in parliament.– (PA)