How can a search engine know exactly what you want to look for before completely finishing the query?

Asked by AshlynM (10684

) August 16th, 2016

I started to type something into Google and several choices popped up and one of them was what I was looking for. I hadn’t finished typing in my search yet.
I had never looked this up before so I was curious how did it know what I was looking for? Is it based on my previous searches about other unrelated items?

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Based on what other people that typed the same ended up clicking on when they went to the page of results.

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Google also bases its recommendations on your previous searches. For example, it knows I live in the US, so if I am looking for a certain town, it will recommend the US town before one of the same name in the UK or Australia or something.

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