December 14, 2016 3 min read

Life is filled with questions, and thanks to the internet, we don't have to betray our ignorance about a given topic to our friends and colleagues -- we can just send a query out into the great Google void.

The search giant put out its list of the top searches of the year, and it revealed a wide variety of subjects and people we wanted to learn more about in 2016.

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People really wanted to know about Pokémon Go -- how to play the game and "catch them all." People also wanted to know how to make slime, whatever that entails.

Then there was this question with a melancholy undercurrent to it: "how to appear funny?" Mind you, not how to be funny, but how to appear that you are. I'm not sure which one requires more effort.

Top "how to" searches:

How to play Pokémon Go? How to register to vote? How to play Powerball? How to make slime? How to move to Canada? How to battle in Pokémon Go? How to appear funny? How to catch Pokémon Go? How to vote early? How to use Snapchat filters?