Simon Rogers

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267 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jun

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Something You Should Know · The Science of Getting Lucky & What People Secretly Google · 7 May 2026 podcast

So queries are getting a lot longer, for instance.

You know, you might search, instead of searching for a restaurant near me, you might search for a Vietnamese restaurant near me where I can get a stay till 10 with a large group and take a birthday cake.

You know, you'll add a lot more detail to those queries.

I'd also say there's kind of a cognitive offloading going on where we'll ask AI to do the work for us around all of the search work that we might have done ourselves in the past.

what surprises you about this what what have you when you look at the data what are you going god i didn't see that coming i mean i guess like when i started writing it i didn't necessarily think you know it's this is quite an optimistic book i guess and i didn't know that that's what was going to happen i definitely felt that um

Yeah, I was just interested in seeing what the data showed.

But partly because I guess the first chapter I wrote was actually the grief chapter, and it was something I did just after my mama died.

And so I thought, well, this will be the hardest one to write, and it's very personal to me.

I kind of started diving into the data, and it really showed me how, even though I felt terribly alone in that moment,

quite lonely, I guess, in that moment.

I wasn't the only person doing it.

I wasn't the only person searching for those things.

And I think we see that often.

And a lot of the search is around how to help somebody in that situation.

So really for me then, I started seeing that actually maybe this tells us that things are a little bit better or people are a little bit kinder than we think they are because often we're searching for how to help others.

And it was kind of reassuring to me actually when I was in that situation where I could see I wasn't the only person doing something.

Wow.

I mean, I can still remember the first time I used Google Search back in, like, the late 90s.

We only have Google Trends data going back to 2004, which is still pretty...

amazing because we've got this, you know, decades of data there and it's something we didn't have before and it's publicly available.

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