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

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Post by natch »

Was able to reproduce this with Safari on an iPhone with search engine (should be irrelevant though) set to Duckduckgo.

After a couple repeated failures (where it went to realtor.com) I tried typing in http://realty.com (I forgot to use https fwiw) then it visited the real site realty.com and again went to that same real correct site on every subsequent attempt using just the bare string realty.com —- of course that’s too much to ask of users, nor would anyone have a chance to ask them.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

evolve2k wrote: post #163
chadlavi wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

So the hypotheses is, it’s doing a web search and google is doing an auto “I’m feeling lucky” redirect.

I use DuckDuckGo ;)

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

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Post by saagarjha »

andrewksl wrote: post #164
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…

Holy cow, yes. I switched to FF a while back, and your description of the behavior alone raised my blood pressure. They way return automatically opens whatever the first suggestion is immensely frustrating. The way hitting `return` is literally a race condition against how quickly the autocomplete returns its results. There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.

Wait until you see Spotlight in Big Sur beta 1, it teleports back in time to give you a result for the query you typed in the last time you opened it :/

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

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Post by saagarjha »

throwanem wrote: post #125
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…

HTH: The quickest way I know to dismiss suggestions in favor of a search is to hit Space after whatever intended search term is matching a suggestion.

This used to work! But now it doesn't because it's doing page title match, and the title of course is something like "ptrace returning EINVAL" and now your space still makes it match…

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

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Post by saagarjha »

freehunter wrote: post #138
recursive wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "It just works" is absolutely still a thing; it's just that not everything "just works". What could that possibly mean?

“Most things just work” or alternatively “it just works (the way most users want it to work)” There is not and can never be “it just works for everyone and every use case with no configuration”.

Yup.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

tbodt wrote: post #148
saagarjha wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Source for it being encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202303 (but it says iOS 13 is required for that).

That might also explain why my iOS 12 iPhone stopped syncing that information with my other devices.

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

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

chadlavi wrote: post #45
impendia wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

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?

iPhone 11 Pro here, everything up to date, and I get the same as you. Type in "sketch" and press GO and I get the DDG results for the term "sketch".

I also tried the example in the OP link and typed "realty.com" and it went to realty.com as expected.

Funnily enough though, as proof that Safari suggestions are still broken despite the above examples working for me... if I now type in "sketch" again, it suggests "realty.com" as the top result. Wtf.

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

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Post by alasdair_ »

tbodt wrote: post #148
saagarjha wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Source for it being encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202303 (but it says iOS 13 is required for that).

>Source for it being encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202303 (but it says iOS 13 is required for that).

Does it restore (by default) if you buy a new iPhone? If yes, then Apple stores a copy of your key to go along with the encrypted data. If it is restorable, it's technically encrypted, but in practice Apple (and whomever Apple decrees) have access to it anyway.

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

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Post by alasdair_ »

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…

I'm on OSX 10.15.5 and when I type "realty" and hit enter (in safari) I get taken to realtor.com

EDIT: even if I type "realty.com" and hit enter, I get taken to realtor.com.

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