What We Ask Google
- Author Simon Rogers
- Narrator Simon Rogers
- Publisher Transworld
- Publish Date 7 May 2026
- Run Time 4 hours and 24 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Internet searching, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Social research and statistics, Social, group or collective psychology.
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Ever wondered what goes through other people’s minds – their silly questions, their inner anxieties, hopes and dreams?
In What We Ask Google, the company's Data Editor Simon Rogers explores insights from the world's biggest dataset: 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 2am when parents want to know how to get their baby to sleep
- Reassuringly, people consistently want to know, ‘How often can you 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.
'This view from the other side of the search box is both charming and insightful, tapping into a deep well of curiosity.' Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up
© Simon Rogers 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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| Author | Simon Rogers |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Simon Rogers |
| Duration | 4 hours and 24 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781529970432 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Transworld |
| Genre | Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Internet searching, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Social research and statistics, Social, group or collective psychology |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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