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

Post by minkzilla » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 10:15 PM UTC

_xnmw wrote: post #3

Probably because he has Realtor.com in his history. I didn't, so Realty.com worked for me.

Post by searchableguy » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 10:18 PM UTC

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…

Post by donohoe » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 10:19 PM UTC

Post by kmutahar » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

yeskia wrote: post #2

Just tried this on my iPhone, took me to Realty.com but not before being forced through a CAPTCHA page. It’s not an excuse, but I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 10:22 PM UTC

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.