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Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by unreal37 »

searchableguy wrote: post #13
saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

Why would you have history of what you searched 2 years ago? I automatically clear my history every day. It sounds like a privacy issue when someone gets your phone.

You think clearing your history improves your privacy somehow? How so?

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by [deleted] »

saagarjha wrote: post #19
searchableguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you have history of what you searched 2 years ago? I automatically clear my history every day. It sounds like a privacy issue when someone gets your phone.

Apple says that this information is end-to-end encrypted, so ideally the only person able to access it is myself. And I find it very handy: it's a lot easier to store a "pointer" to something in my head than the actual content. Whenever I need to look something up I saw before, I use a couple of keywords and I can kind it by searching there, so it's invaluable.

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Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by xt00 »

hopefully apple doesn't just whitelist realty.com to forward to realtor.com.. They should actually send you to the qualified URL if you type in a .com or whatever.. like who these days types http:// or https:// ? In chrome for example it hides the http or https now..

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by impendia »

saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

> I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com"

I got curious and tried the same, with the same results. And I have never before bought shoes online, ever.

But it's even worse than you said: the website is actually "skechers.com", with no t. So, when you type "sketch", Safari is guessing that you're misspelling the name of a shoe retailer.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by partdavid »

baggy_trough wrote: post #27

What drives me mad is typing queries that have a space. Most of the time it'll do the intended search, but sometimes it'll try to go directly to the domain with the space which immediately fails.

Personally I hate conflating the URL entry space with the search query space. Which is why I was so disappointed that Firefox removed my ability to separate them recently.

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by saagarjha »

heavymark wrote: post #22

File a bug report on https://webkit.org/reporting-bugs/ . Unlike the apple bug reporter where it goes into an abyss and might be years before a resolution or even a reply, with the webkit reporting system I usually get a response from apple employees very quickly and majority of the items fixed in the next release or two.

Sadly I think this is specifically a Safari bug, so it pretty much has to go into Feedback Assistant. (I figure if you file a bug for WebKit they'll tell you to go report it there anyways.)

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by codezero »

There’s a pretty simple explanation, and I think the behavior is almost certainly a bug or a UX edge case they overlooked.

The entry in safari is acting only as a search box it seems, and Go takes you to the first result that is finds - which is the first result on Google, likely a paid ad, or just coincidentally a higher ranking.

If you visit the realty.com site directly (Not suggesting this is a workaround, see thread), then type it in, Safari remembers it and gives it higher priority. This seems to be a quirk of a “first visit” UX - it still is meaningful to anyone who has competitors with similar names, and I’d call it a bug to not check the domain first, though assuming good intent, maybe it does, but something about that domain is not right for some heuristic (HSTS, something else?)

Re: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

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Post by saagarjha »

impendia wrote: post #35
saagarjha wrote: post #6

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack…

> I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com" I got curious and tried the same, with the same results. And I have never before bought shoes online, ever. But it's even worse than you said: the website is actually "skechers.com", with no t. So, when you type "sketch", Safari is guessing that you're misspelling the name of a shoe retailer.

Ha, I didn't even notice that! Yeah, it's gotten really aggressive about thinking it knows better than you…
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