What We Ask Google

A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW SCIENCE BOOK MAY 2026

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 – our silly questions, inner anxieties, hopes and dreams?

In this hopeful and insightful book, Google Data Editor Simon Rogers explores insights from the worlds biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. What it reveals about us might surprise you.

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.

In a time when the news is so relentlessly gloomy, this book provides a ray of hope.Daily Mail

Deserves a place on any bathroom bookshelfGuardian