In the wake of recent discussions, this article asks how the broad process of digitization – and in particular the possibility of digital granular searching across vast corpora of primary sources and secondary literature – has transformed our research habits, the questions we are likely to ask, and the answers we are inclined to give. Specifically, it raises the question of whether digitization has been the unacknowledged driving force behind the rise of transnational and global history. It argues that technological changes and new digital tools have not disproportionately benefited global history. If anything, the relationship between digitization and global history has to be understood through the prism of their interplay with language and our discipline's growing Anglicization.