‘Brexit’ Beat ‘Porn’ as the Most Popular Google Search Term Last Week

Brexit was even more frequently searched than Euro 16 football

by Mark DeCambre
Market Watch

If it was the referendum heard round the world, then there’s no better counter than internet search to measure the immense interest in “Brexit” — the U.K.’s landmark decision to sever ties with the European Union.

The portmanteau — a combination of “Britain” and “exit” to reflect the nature of the U.K.’s June 23 referendum to secede after its decades-long EU membership — was so rabidly searched on Alphabet’s Google Inc. GOOGL, +0.59% that it even outstripped trawling for “porn” in the 24-hour period around the vote.

The following chart shows “Brexit” searches in blue, “porn” represented in red, and “U.K. referendum” in yellow.

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