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'Move to Gibraltar' among British Google searches after vote
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In this file photo dated Monday Aug. 19, 2013, Britain's Royal Navy ship HMS Westminster, right, sails along the Gibraltar stretch backdropped by the tiny territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula the rock of Gibraltar, near to La Linea de la Concepcion, Spain. Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of the tiny British territory, said Sunday May 29, 2016, that Gibraltar could find its access to the single European market blocked by a hostile Spanish government if the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in their upcoming referendum next month. (AP/Laura Leon)
The United Kingdom's historic vote to exit the European Union is dominating the conversation online as well as global headlines.
Google Trends is reporting spiking searches in the United Kingdom for "getting an Irish passport" and "move to Gibraltar," the British territory on the south coast of Spain.
(Read also: Brexit: What would this mean for the youth?)
Google also reports one of the top questions asked by UK users since the Brexit referendum results were released is "what is the EU?" Search interest in the British pound is at its highest level ever.
Twitter says some 6.4 million tweets were sent in the UK from the opening of polls Thursday through British Prime Minister David Cameron's resignation speech Friday.
Twitter says it's rare that the name of a country trends in that country.
