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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 »

kmutahar wrote: post #17
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.

The CAPTCHA is part of the site and has nothing to do with the domain. The CAPTCHA is provided by Cloudflare and it’s up to the customer to chose to show it before access to the site since it can decrease spam and hug of deaths

Wow suddenly I have a great deal more sympathy for Safari's behavior. When a site is that hostile to visitors, steering them away is almost a value-added service.

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

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Post by chadlavi »

elliekelly wrote: post #66
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?

Are you using private browsing? Safari also did a search in my default search engine for me (but sketch.com was the top result on DDG). But when I turn off private browsing and type sketch it immediately sends me to skechers.com despite the fact that I wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of their shoes and my purchase/browsing history reflects that. Odd that private browsing would impact the autocomplete behavior in th…

No

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

freehunter wrote: post #137
grawprog wrote: post #95

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Sure that's great, but that should either be separate from the address bar or at the very least shouldn't be so 'default' for lack of a better term, that just clicking without thinking activates that behaviour. For people like yourself that use it to its full advantage I won't argue that is a good feature. For the majority of people trying to make a simple search, it doesn't seem so helpful. I feel like default behav…

It used to be two different lines in the address bar in Firefox. Then Chrome came along with the omnibar and people liked it so it stuck.

At least Firefox still lets you put back a dedicated search box

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

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Post by chadlavi »

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?

And here's a video: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0xTe8fTeUgpQX6ymGcR8zputg

Note this is on the iOS 14 beta

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

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Post by [deleted] »

codezero wrote: post #80
ianferrel wrote: post #78

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I don't think people are misreading your post as approving of the bug. What people are responding to is your suggestion of a workaround: "If you visit the realty.com site directly..." And the question is: How do you visit the site directly if typing the domain name into the url field doesn't take you there. Your workaround either doesn't work or needs more explanation.

Whoa, thanks for that perspective. That was NOT meant to be a recommended workaround, that is absurd, so thanks for the downvotes folks! I was pointing out that after doing that, the default UX behavior leading to the “bad” website no longer happens, indicating it is all about UX and not a DNS thing, or other weird Safari bug.

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

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Post by hn_check »

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.

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

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Post by dannyw »

ljcus10 wrote: post #59
samirelanduk wrote: post #53

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Probably not tbh - the cost/benefit of getting such small amounts of money versus enormous reputational damage is not remotely worth it.

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

Apple uses this to promote first party services like Apple Music, Apple News, and App Store. All of these generate revenue for Apple.

If they land on Google, then Google would be promoting YouTube Music, Google News, etc, which is lost revenue for Apple.

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

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Post by ajzinsbwbs »

eclipxe wrote: post #155
breatheoften wrote: post #103

Url editing on iphone safari is highly messed up experience ... the text selection and editing behavior is just broken since ios 12 or 11 -- whichever one introduced the new text selection model ... My standard easy repro -- go to a long url and try to edit the second to last segment of the url path (something which i do for work frequently when folks send me links to projects under development). Enjoy the frustratio…

Works fine for me. I just long press on the keyboard to get into cursor edit mode and swipe along until I get to where I want.

Nice, thanks! Now that you remind me I’m sure I’ve seen that move before, but forgot about it and have been frustrated when editing urls every day since. I think this is the worst thing about using an iPhone for me and probably a lot of other users. Here is the full incantation to get it to work:

1. Touch the address bar and the keyboard will appear.

2. Long press on the spacebar (other parts of the keyboard won’t do it) until a cursor appears in the address bar.

3. Without lifting your finger after the long press, start dragging your finger left and right. The cursor will move.

Maybe writing that out will help me remember. If only there was some affordance in the ui indicating this common use is supported.

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