Who Knows What's Next For Greece? Google, Hopefully

Moments after the Greeks rejected an austerity deal from the EU, they took all of their unanswered questions to Google.
Newly appointed Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos looks on during a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry in Athens on July 6, 2015. Greeks declared in a referendum that they 'deserve better' and 'cannot accept a non-viable solution' to the country's debt crisis, new Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said upon taking office. A 55-year-old leftist economist who had been a pointman in Greece's bailout talks since April, Tsakalotos replaced the flamboyant Yanis Varoufakis hours after the latter resigned on Monday, ostensibly to facilitate the negotiations.AFP PHOTO / ANGELOS TZORTZINIS (Photo credit should read ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Newly appointed Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos looks on during a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry in Athens on July 6, 2015. Greeks declared in a referendum that they 'deserve better' and 'cannot accept a non-viable solution' to the country's debt crisis, new Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said upon taking office. A 55-year-old leftist economist who had been a pointman in Greece's bailout talks since April, Tsakalotos replaced the flamboyant Yanis Varoufakis hours after the latter resigned on Monday, ostensibly to facilitate the negotiations.AFP PHOTO / ANGELOS TZORTZINIS (Photo credit should read ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Moments after the Greeks rejected an austerity deal from the EU, they took all of their unanswered questions to Google.

The search platform released a Google Trends report highlighting what Greeks and the rest of the world alike wanted to know during the height of Greece's debt crisis.

In the wake of the referendum's failure, Greeks naturally were wondering about the results of their vote and what it meant for the future of their country. However, it's interesting to note that they were searching exactly what a "no" vote entailed, even after the referendum was over.

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The data also suggested Greeks were curious about what a future outside the eurozone would be like:

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Those most interested in Greece's referendum and economic future were Google users in Greece, German-speaking principality Liechtenstein and -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- Germany.

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Elsewhere in the world, people also wanted to know what was going on in Greece, what the vote entailed and what its results could be. One of the top questions was simply, "What is happening in Greece?"

Interestingly enough, in the United States, Google searches of "euro to dollar" spiked dramatically on July 6, the day of the referendum. This comes at a time when the European Central Bank imposed stricter austerity measures on the struggling country and Greek banks have remained closed, allowing Greeks to withdraw a maximum of only 60 euro (about $66) per day.

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