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

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Post by tomc1985 »

om2 wrote: post #211
xsmasher wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Folks who can reproduce the "sketch" --> "sketchers.com" behavior or the "realty.com" --> "realtor.com" behavior, would any of you be willing to file the issue via Feedback Assistant (only needs a free developer.apple.com account) with a sysdiagnose and a screen recording? Then give me the FB number. I can get the Safari team to look at this, but I can't reproduce either behavior myself. Any other examples of bogus/u…

I can't tell if it's my company's censorware or Safari but lately it really likes redirecting 127.0.0.1 to http://www.127.0.0.1.com if a server isn't listening on the port I requested. Localhost does the same thing

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

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Post by rezonant »

impendia wrote: post #35
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…

> 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.

One thing that doesn't seem to be discussed a lot in this thread is that the keystrokes alone don't tell you what Safari will do. The second and third cases of the original video show Safari adding extra characters (the second and third phone added "m" as in "realty.com[m]", and in my testing, "sketch" added "rs" as in "sketch[rs]". When I tried (iPad Safari) "realty.com", the "Top Hit" was "realty.com" and it did not autofill anything, and I got to realty.com (no problem there). However, The first phone in the video did not show any extra characters. Is Safari considering it a "search autocompletion" but not showing any extra characters, perhaps because they are suppressed? Also, many commentors here report this not happening for them, but they do not specify the state of Search Engine Suggestions and Safari Suggestions options on their devices. My testing was done with all the default options (which is both Search Engine and Safari Suggestions are turned on)

EDIT: Could it be that the Suggestions system is taking the autocomplete candidate ("sketchrs" and "realty.comm") as its input (instead of what the user actually typed)? That would explain what I've read here except for the very first iPhone in the video...

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

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Post by hn_check »

TX1234 wrote: post #216
hn_check wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your reply sounds irrelevant when multiple people on this thread have been able to replicate. It only happens on Safari and if you turn off Safari suggestions it stops. People have also been able to replicate it on macOS. So it’s obvious it’s coming from Safari suggestions. Feel free to test for yourself.

Multiple people with Safari suggestions on can not replicate it, across multiple versions of iOS.

The fun things about confirmation biases is that if you believe it's true you're going to focus only on those who confirm your bias, yet a single example where it doesn't operate that way should rightly put the entire claim in question. Specifically the claim that Safari/iOS is built to do this, or ridiculous claims that Apple is monetizing this (which is uproariously funny, but that claim is here).

Secondly, you created an account for this? Seems mighty fishy.

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

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Post by dpacmittal »

noisy_boy wrote: post #260
nixpulvis wrote: post #204

And people wonder why I've been begging for the ability to set my own default browser in iOS for so long... So many people defend Apple's walled garden, and then they do things like this, be it on purpose or by accident. What a mess.

TIL you can't set your own default browser on iOS.

Until 2 days back. With iOS 14 you can now choose default browser and mail client

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

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Post by scottjg »

nodamage wrote: post #146

I've run into a similar problem on the Mac version of Safari for a while now: I'll paste in a full ( http:// or https:// ) URL and hit Enter, but instead of loading the requested URL it just reloads the current page. I sometimes have to paste it a couple times before it will actually load the URL I want. Anyone else encountered this or am I just going crazy?

i was hoping someone would bring this up. it happens to me all the time.

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

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Post by rapnie »

Tangential. I find it annoying that Firefox hardcoded a whole bunch of URL's in their search bar history. I have 'Provide suggestions' off (privacy), yet it suggests me walmart.com, facebook.com, americanexpress.com, etcetera.. all sites that I have zero interest for. I guess they must be there, because they earn some money from it?

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

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Post by wruza »

codetrotter wrote: post #213
hazz99 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! I have a very new iPhone 11 and it takes me straight to the google results. I wonder if the behaviour depends on your locale?

iPhone X here, running iOS 13.5.1. I have Google set as my search engine in Safari. When I type sketch and press return I am taken to the Google Search results. Notably, however, I have “Search Engine Suggestions” turned off in my Safari settings, and I also have “Safari Suggestions” turned off in my Safari settings. I’ve turned them off a while back because they were more of a nuisance than a help. Maybe you and oth…

I have both turned on, but cannot reproduce on ios 13. Must be 14 new shiny thing, glad I skipped the update. The amount of things that Apple improved over last 7 years is incredible, I think it’s time for them to move on.
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