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What is this for, and what should I do to get on, or off the list?
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This is off topic flame bait.
All that said, I think this is a little overblown. I doubt many people go to one site over another based on the existence of this list.
Currently on websites starting with 'joe'.
Because Internet entropy is fun. More fun than a recommendation engine.
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This is off topic flame bait.
I think what the OP is getting at is that Apple has a "secret" list of domains that it has approved for suggesting. There's no means by which we can get on to that list. In an open source browser, this list would be public, and assumedly there would be some way of submitting a change request. All that said, I think this is a little overblown. I doubt many people go to one site over another based on the existence of t…
Interesting side-note: there are only two *.ai domains on this entire list: 1. "tempo.ai", which doesn't actually resolve 2. "web.ai", an http-only site that looks kind of like a cross between a geocities website and a parked spam page, with the content allegedly last revised almost 20 years ago (2003) I wonder how old this list is.
"smoot" dot apple dot com?
The list exists initially to support a feature, a utilitarian reason. Then, being in the list has SEO value or some such. The list becomes a legitimacy or authority test. It affects traffic, sales.
Maybe other stuff piggybacks this list. Anyone who needs a list of important domain names uses it. Ordering search results, caching, testing, crawling... More dynamics unrelated to Apple's original purpose.
Meanwhile, Apple continues to treat the list as a relatively unimportant thing... Just a clunky little hack that enables autocomplete. At some point, willfully ignorant of a whole industry of professional services out there promising to get you on list.
Anyone know how this list was created or how often it gets updated?
I assume it must have come from user searches at some point?
I always long for Firefox's url bar, it easily beats everything else since Firefox 2 came out or so. Nowadays you have to un-configure two layers of "let's put a search bar in your URL bar" but then it's still just amazing. Especially compared to google, which obviously doesn't have an incentive to have you skip searching on google.com... and apparently apple doesn't want to you complete just any old urls, but only apple approved ones?! This seems like such a useless kind of (soft, but still) gate-keeping...
"smoot" dot apple dot com?