Predicting the polls – did Google know Trump and Brexit would happen?

In the aftermath of 2016’s second historical political event, we ask whether Google search data predicted both Brexit and Donald Trump’s win.
Social media went mental, protests rose up across the country and civil unrest threatens to dominate the days following Donald Trump securing his seat in the Oval Office for the next four years. It was a similar tale for the Brexit vote in June.
So far, things aren’t quite as crazy today as they were in the immediate aftermath yesterday;