When will Venice sink? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Jonathan Buckley

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesEvery winter, it seems, we see pictures in the press and on TV of St Mark’s Square looking like a lake. People wading through thigh-high water. Boats bobbing outside the famous cafes. Venice is sinking rapidly, these images imply.The pictures are misleading, however. St Mark’s Square does indeed get flooded, dozens of times every year,