Is Google psychic or was I just asking a common question (see details)?

You asked a question common to the area in which you are located. And, of all the questions about ascii, it is probably the most asked.

If you asked the question on March 13 or 14, you would probably get ”...ascii code for pi”

Maybe, but sometimes it is a bit spooky when Google completes my question or correctly guesses what folder i want to place a bookmark in.

I don’t know about psychic, but I think Google may have some way of manipulating electronic devices to read the electrical patterns in the brain like one might a book… I won’t even mention what they can do with the microwave ovens… Or else they’ve got nanobots that they’ve flown into all of our ears, which are now reporting our thoughts back to Google HQ via 4G. It’s definitely one of those two options.

Its just predictive text.. like autocorrect.

Is it predictive test based on the whole population of Google users? That is why I asked people to write in “what is the ascii code for” to see if this is the case. The other more spooky possibility is that Google knows enough about me to compare me to a smaller subset of its users. What exactly does Google know about me and who would I be compared against?

~Google knows all. All hail our new master.

It just keeps a record of everything ever asked.

My results were for tables and converters.

The autofill is based on previous questions, overall popularity, regional popularity, and “freshness” (i.e., if you type “electoral split” you will get 2016 ranked a head of 2008).

If I am checking baseball statistics, I will get questions about the Giants and then the A’s, but never the Mets, because I ask about the Giants a lot and I live in Northern California.

It just seemed so strange when it showed check mark. I know I never included check mark in any other question I asked. The reason for the question was that I am doing some volunteer tutoring and I was writing a Word document that included a section on how to check an answer to an algebraic equation by plugging in the value for the variable back into the equation. Traditionally when you plug in the value and both sides of the equation show the same number, you make a check mark to show that the answer is correct. If Google was able to figure out my motivation then I am inclined to agree with @RedDeerGuy1 that Google knows all.

I got “check mark” as well when I typed that beginning into Google… I got “heart” when I typed it into Bing.

Are you logged in on Google? Have you typed anything else related to it?

I notice that Google likes to track search activities and play fortune teller with us. It tries to see what we search then thinks of what we would most likely want to search next based on our previous activities. For example, if I search “how harmful is cockroaches” then attempt to search again, Google will automatically gives a suggestion “how to get rid of cockroaches”. Or if you are logged in to Google and you have a history of searching for Lady Gaga, next time you come back Google will automatically show you something like “Lady Gaga latest news” even when you just type “lady”.

Of course Google base its suggestion on searches by other people in the past, but that’s not all of the story.

Your thoughts and questions are much more common and unoriginal than you would like to believe.
It has all been asked before.

I got check mark too.

So many sites today don’t allow you to view them without signing in and having access to your browser history.
I look up tables in target, no matter where I go, I will find table ads on my current site. Some from target and some from other ads. For days most of my ads will be tables, or bras, or skirts, whatever I looked up.
If I looked up language translations, I will get ads for language education videos. Often specific to the language I looked up.
For instance. The other day I looked up common grammar errors.
I couldn’t remember the word parenthesis and I tried looking up rules for colons and semi colons. and then I looked up rules for commas. I knew these, I was just hoping to find the word parenthesis. Before I could type rules for exclamations, it put in the parenthesis word. It was probably a lucky shot, but it figure I was looking for some grammar assist and figured that is what was probably next in line. Or probably at least the most requested question in relations to my search pattern.
So they were probably going off of your search pattern.

@Stinley , Glad to see somebody else got check mark. Now it does not seem quite so strange as before, but it does make me wonder why different people get different responses and how Google decides who belongs to what group.

@LostInParadise I got “check mark” also. I think that is probably the most popular ascii request. What else do you need an ascii code for?