Graph: Yahoo Answers and Quora compared on Google Trends for Websites (plus Twitter and Tumblr for a better perspective)
Many people ask questions on the Web, especially on search engines like Google but also on social media. Even in cases where they don't ask a question containing a question mark most queries are indeed questions as well, it's just that people don't enter the whole sentence in the Google search box.
When you search for [best smartphone] you are actually asking "what is the best smartphone". Even a search for smartphone itself implies that you are looking for the best or at least most popular smartphone.
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