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Labour Party Trended on Google Search Before Election: Chart
The Labour Party has never been more searched on Google.
11 Jun 2017, 07:44 PM IST 
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the U.K. opposition Labour Party, right, poses for a selfie photograph with an attendee during a general-election campaign rally in Watford, U.K. (Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg) -- Search interest surged for Britain’s Labour Party in the final days of the campaign, according to Google Trends, hinting at a different outcome than the one predicted by polls and financial markets. “We have only had real-time Trends data for two years and we’ve seen time and again that it can really tell us when something is happening,” Simon Rogers, data editor at Google’s News Lab, said in an email. “The Labour party is more highly searched now than at any time in Google history.”
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