The Age of Instant Answers: How We Use Search Engines
On average, Google processes over 40,000 searches every second, and with the web now at our fingertips everywhere we go, there’s always somewhere to find the answers to life’s most pressing questions.
Curiosity Drives Smartphone Searches
Our research aimed to discover how UK smartphone owners use their phones to seek answers to questions like, “Why is your face on your head?” or “How many toes does a rhino have?” (Yes, these are real questions from the research).
The Dominance of Search Engines
Our study revealed that three-quarters (75%) of the nation now use a search engine as their first port of call for life’s little questions, with four in ten (40%) people using their smartphone to ask Google a question at least once per day. Interestingly, women are more likely to do this (44%) than men (36%).
The Top Google Search Trends in 2017
We also considered the top Google search trends in 2017 and found that the top five trending consumer tech searches (globally) were:
- iPhone 8
- iPhone X
- Nintendo Switch
- Samsung Galaxy S8
- Xbox One
Google also reported that consumers started more searches with “how” than ever before in 2017.
The Funniest and Weirdest Smartphone Searches
So, if you’re curious, these are 20 of the funniest (and sometimes weirdest) things the nation has asked their smartphones recently:
- Do cockerels crow when they feel like it?
- How many toes does a rhinoceros have?
- Why is your face on your head?
- Why does cucumber taste like shampoo?
- What is the average weight of a panda?
- What is the length of spaghetti?
- How can I grow taller?
- Does the Mandela Effect confirm the existence of a parallel universe?
- Can helicopters fly upside down?
- What is the lifespan of a mayfly?
- How do I get my husband a brain transplant?
- Who let the dogs out?
- What percentage of people have seen a ghost?
- What is the funniest joke in the world?
- Where are my keys?
- How does a giraffe clean its ears?
- What happens to old false legs?
- Where can I find gold?
- Why don’t ducks’ feet stick to ice?
- How can I make a time machine?
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Finding the Answers to Life’s Little Mysteries
To quench your curiosity, we’ve found the answers to some of the most pressing questions above, as well as finding a few more little-known facts from across the internet:
- A cockerel’s body clock tells it to crow around two hours before sunrise.
- A rhino has three toes.
- An average adult panda weighs 70–100 kg.
- Contrary to what some believe, breaking wind doesn’t burn any calories.
- Some helicopters can perform a roll, but they can’t maintain inverted flight.
- The lifespan of a mayfly is around a day, but some only live for a few minutes.
- Reports say one in three Brits believe in ghosts and one in five Americans.
- A giraffe uses its tongue, which is 53 cm long on average, to clean out its ears.
- Gold can be found on every continent, except Antarctica. The largest amounts of gold can be found in the ocean, but it’s not yet possible to extract gold from seawater.
- Ducks have a counter-current heat exchange system in their feet, so their blood flow helps to match the temperature of their feet to the ice, meaning they don’t stick to the ice and also avoid frostbite.
- If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.
- The most visited place in Europe is Disneyland Paris.
- Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
- Before the invention of color TV, 75% of people said they dreamed in black and white. Today, only 12% do.
- Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1930s as medicine.
- You can buy green bean-flavored ice pops in China.
- Ostriches have the biggest eyes in the whole animal kingdom. Their eyes are bigger than their brains.
- Wombat poo is cube-shaped.
- You can buy eel-flavored ice cream in Japan.
- The average housefly lives for one month.
- The ancient Greeks believed that horseradish was worth its weight in gold.
- Sea otters have a pouch under their forearm to store their favorite rocks.
- Since 2008, video games have outsold DVDs each year.
- More Monopoly money is printed each year than real US currency.
- There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
- The Greeks believed that redheads turned to vampires after death.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Email existed before the World Wide Web.
- Created in 1956, the first VCR was the size of a piano.
- A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.
- The first alarm clock was designed for one person and could only go off at 4 am.
- The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch, instead of the females.
- Female tortoises are usually larger than their male counterparts.
- People who are using a computer blink 66% less than those who aren’t.
- The home of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer.
- The plastic things on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.
- The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
- In 1936, Russians made a computer that ran on water.
- When potatoes were first brought to France in the 1600s, they were banned because they were considered poisonous.
- Steve Jobs relieved stress by soaking his feet in Apple’s company toilets.
- Around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a robot.
- All public swans in England belong to the Queen.
- Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
- Chocolate was once used as currency.
- Americans consume the most ice cream in the world.
- M&Ms actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s” the last names of the candy’s founders.
- Big Ben does not refer to the famous clock but actually to the bell.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Source : Mobiles.co.uk
