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

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Post by mjcohen »

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

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> 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?

When I keyed "sketch" into Brave on a mac, the first entry was momentarily "Sketch — The digital design toolkit". Then that was preceded by "SKECHERS® Official Site - Shoes, Boots & Clothing".

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

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Post by tingletech »

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

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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.

I get https://sketchfab.com

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

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Post by codezero »

cortesoft wrote: post #65
codezero wrote: post #38

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 thr…

How do you 'visit the realty.com' site directly if it won't let you type the exact url and go to it?

To answer your actual question: put in the https URI scheme first. It won’t assume it’s a search.

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

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Post by codezero »

ljcus10 wrote: post #105
codezero wrote: post #70

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That’s the bug. I’m not saying it’s not broken, it totally is. I’m explaining why it’s doing what it does from the UX available, in an attempt to differentiate between bad UX/design and some malicious thing done by Apple to a specific website.

I think somehow Apple is getting monetized by Safari suggestions and is stealing this traffic from sites like Realty.com and getting paid by Fortune 500 companies like Realtor.com

I doubt it. I’m sure they are monetizing things associated with it and they should, but Apple would get dragged if they were doing something shady, or maybe not, Google does this and only HN is annoyed (paid results, AMP, licensing google to FF etc. )

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

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Post by dhosek »

Safari's latest version has added some asynchronous coding that has impact behavior of the browser in negative ways. If you type the first part of a URL and there are multiple options so you use down arrow to get to the one that you want, a lot of times, the list is still being populated and Safari will jump the cursor back up to the top of the list. I think this is part of that same bad coding.

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

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Post by perryizgr8 »

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

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> "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”.

But that's true for everything, not just iphone. So "just works" loses it's meaning.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

freehunter wrote: post #135
mikewhy wrote: post #90

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TBH I quite like it, especially in chrome. I can type "GitHub [project name] pulls" and it will take me where I want to go, I can type "app.dev myfeature" and it will go suggest "app.dev.company.com/some/deep/path-abcd1234/myfeature"

Meanwhile in Chrome for me I type my project manager’s name to bring up their WebEx link I visit several times a day and it comes up but first I have to move my mouse down past several autocomplete suggestions for travel destinations and popular musicians.

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

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Post by jessaustin »

prawn wrote: post #91
ljcus10 wrote: post #59

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My question is can they bid on it behind the scenes like a keyword. Siri suggestions must have some type of revenue.

It would be a poorly considered algorithm rather than some bidding situation. No sane person would build this intentionally. The big companies have too much to lose especially.

Basically, this is Google's entire business: getting paid to send us where someone else wants us to go. Google are "big". Why wouldn't Apple want in on this action?
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