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Continuing from the preceding post:

Later I thought that if google is really participating in this then the same result would probably appear if I put different words searching for the same thing. I did and got the correct time with different searches. However, contrary to what I expected, it was not the change in search words from "time" to, for example, "clock" or "date" that led to the correct time. Instead, I got the correct time when I specified my location with the search. A little later I thought of probable explanation. It seems that when you ask a search engine to know the current time specifying a location then it would search its own info to find the answer. On the other hand, if you just request the current time then the search engine may have no info to use to find the current time for you. Therefore to fulfill such request the search engine may send this request all the way back to the ISP and get the time from it.

As you can see, with this explanation, google may not be participating in this game even though all the search results are coming from it. On the other hand the sewage called Virgin Mobile and Charter Communications seems to be playing this game even though, contrary to what I thought earlier, not through intercepting the search I send.