'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

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.