Is my face attractive? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Morwenna Ferrier

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life's most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the most common queries

Is my face attractive? Don't answer that. Not because I'm ducking out of this, but because you can't. Attractiveness is subjective, perhaps the most subjective question of all; that we outsource the answer to Google (and we do, in our droves) is ironic since it depends on a bias that is impossible to unpack. Yet in searching the internet for an answer, it also reveals the question to be one of the great existential tensions of our time. Because, as we all know, being attractive is absolutely 100% the A-road to happiness.

If you are Googling to rate your attractiveness, then you are probably working on the assumption that you aren't. You're also, possibly, more vulnerable and susceptible to being told that you aren't. In short, you're a sitting duck, someone who had a sore throat and who asked good old Dr Google for advice only to be told it was cancer.