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

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Post by om2 »

xsmasher wrote: post #82
chadlavi wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a bit confused... I just typed "sketch" in Safari on my phone. The first suggested result was indeed skechers.com. But then I hit enter (so the total keystrokes were "s k e t c h return") and it did a search in my default search engine for "sketch". Which is what I expected. so what am I doing that you're not?

I can confirm the "s k e t c h return" -> skechers behavior. "s k e t c h SPACE return" got me the google search results.

Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number.

I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavior myself. Any other examples of bogus/unexpected autocomplete also welcome.

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

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Post by codetrotter »

chadlavi wrote: post #143
rubyfan wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

doesn’t do it for me. one difference is my default search engine is duck duck go.

Aha! Same here, it looks like maybe DDG vs Google is the real difference here?

iPhone X here, running iOS 13.5.1. I have Google set as my search engine in Safari.

When I type sketch and press return I am taken to the Google Search results.

Notably, however, I have “Search Engine Suggestions” turned off in my Safari settings, and I also have “Safari Suggestions” turned off in my Safari settings. I’ve turned them off a while back because they were more of a nuisance than a help.

Maybe you and others turned those things off at some point too?

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

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Post by codetrotter »

hazz99 wrote: post #119
ivalm wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On iPhone 11 Pro and updated Safari typing “sketch” and pressing “go” leads to sketchers website. Have to click on “google searches” to get other results.

Interesting! I have a very new iPhone 11 and it takes me straight to the google results. I wonder if the behaviour depends on your locale?

iPhone X here, running iOS 13.5.1. I have Google set as my search engine in Safari.

When I type sketch and press return I am taken to the Google Search results. Notably, however, I have “Search Engine Suggestions” turned off in my Safari settings, and I also have “Safari Suggestions” turned off in my Safari settings. I’ve turned them off a while back because they were more of a nuisance than a help.

Maybe you and others turned those things off at some point too?

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

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Post by cromka »

What really drives me mad is that there is no public bugreporting for any Apple soft, except for the betas obviously.

Only then we'd be able to have an idea of the sheer extent of bugginess of their products, and how the heavily advertised features never work. I hope someone with energy and time actually creates and maintains an open, alternative bugzilla for that purpose specifically.

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

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Post by IfOnlyYouKnew »

d0100 wrote: post #192

Couldn't this lead to a nice settlement for this guy? Or would "it's a bug" be an acceptable defense for Apple?

Apple and this website have no business relationship, so there’s no breech of contract. Beyond that, Apple‘s duty of care is really very low.

If Google can take money to sent people to a website that otherwise would rank below yours, Apple certainly isn’t liable for doing the same without intention.

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

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Post by TX1234 »

hn_check wrote: post #198
egypturnash wrote: post #116

I just typed realty.com into OSX Safari 13.1.1 and got the proper site. Then when I picked up my iPhone (ios 13.5) and started to do the same test it autocompleted 'real' into 'realty.com'. On the OSX side, the 'search' pane of settings has Safar Suggestions and Quick Website Search on, has preload top hit and show favorites off, and has DDG as the search. On IOS I have DDG as the search, and have Search Engine Sugge…

Best Buy rather than Apple store. Of course the most obvious explanation of all is that someone set up a domain redirect for the sole purpose of getting a front page on HN and Reddit. This domain seems to be very poorly ranked, yet here everyone is plugging it into their browsers and telling Google and everyone else how very important it is.

Your reply sounds irrelevant when multiple people on this thread have been able to replicate. It only happens on Safari and if you turn off Safari suggestions it stops. People have also been able to replicate it on macOS. So it’s obvious it’s coming from Safari suggestions. Feel free to test for yourself.

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

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Post by AgentOrange1234 »

chadlavi wrote: post #143
rubyfan wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

doesn’t do it for me. one difference is my default search engine is duck duck go.

Aha! Same here, it looks like maybe DDG vs Google is the real difference here?

I can reproduce on an ipad, with ddg as the search engine. Neat.

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

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Post by kevinschumacher »

torben-friis wrote: post #81
jameshawkins wrote: post #5

I just tried this on Safari on my phone - I was sent to Realtor.com as well. I tried it a few times and was redirected each time, even though I typed "realty.com" in the URL bar (and it didn't auto-correct before I hit "Go").

It doesn’t work for me. I wonder if it’s location related? I’m in spain if it makes any difference.

Any chance you were using private browsing?

When I enable private browsing, Safari correctly takes me to realty.com

When I disable private browsing, Safari takes me to realtor.com

I am in the US

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

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Post by zamalek »

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…

> the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken.

I'm looking for a genuine honest answer here, this really isn't rhetorical. Every second thread regarding Apple seems to have top comments complaining about the quality of what Apple has become. The first I recall was the butterfly keyboard fiasco, then some others, then El Capitan and Big Sur bugs, then this.

Again, I really want to understand this: why the continued loyalty?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

bscphil wrote: post #152
chadlavi wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you get if you switch your search engine to DDG?

I use DDG and I see the same behavior: sketch --> skechers.com sketch --> search for sketch on DDG So this is presumably not DDG specific behavior. Safari on latest Catalina macOS.

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