What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful Picture of Humankind

Ever wondered what goes through other people’s minds—their silly questions, inner anxieties, hopes and dreams?

In What We Ask Google, the company's data editor Simon Rogers explores insights from the world's biggest company: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. What it reveals about us might surprise you.

In June the UK sees a spike in searches for ‘How to help a bee’. 'Where is Chuck Norris?' is the 17th most common English-language question of all time. Around the world it’s 2 AM when parents want to know how to get their baby to sleep. Reassuringly, people consistently want to know how often they can donate plasma.

Brimming with insights that vary from the playful to the profound, What We Ask Google delves into the momentous and the mundane secrets of what we ask when we get the chance to ask anything, offering a surprisingly hopeful picture of humankind.