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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 autocomple

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 Suggestions, Safari Suggestions, and Quick Website Search on, and Preload Top Hit off. And have Frequently Visited Sites off. It is worth mentioning that OSX Safari offered 'realtor.com' as a 'Top Hit' suggestion below the address bar, which I could have chosen with a quick downarrow, return, but at no point did it try to fill in autocomplete for me. I almost wonder if this is happening to the owner of realty.com because they have spent a lot of time looking at realtor.com while building a site that competes with it, and Safari now thinks this is a site they really love to go to. — EDIT. Oh no I missed the part where there are videos of this being done on demo iPhones at the Apple store. Crazy! And not good.

crazygringo 6y ago
Yup, similar -- I've never visited either in my life prior, but on macOS it goes to realty.com, but I am shocked that on iOS I type in "realty.com" and it doesn't autocorrect, but lists "realtor.com" as the top suggestion below, but when I hit enter it goes to realtor.com instead of realty.com! That is seriously bad functionality. I've already been annoyed at iOS's keyboard overly autocorrecting, but to change a URL I typed in explicitly really pisses me off.
- ehsankia 6y ago
  I'm curious, did yours also have the extra m (realty.comm)? Both the 2nd and 3rd phone the video shows has the extra m, which makes me think it's an actual bug in the autocomplete, where it has completed to "realtor.com" (notice realtor has one more letter than realty), but you actually don't see it (except the last letter, the extra m at the end). So when you press enter, it goes to realtor. If you do get the extra m, can you play around and see what happens if you delete the extra m at the end? Does it go to realtor.co? realty.com?
  - crazygringo 6y ago
    Nope, never saw any extra m. Sounds like something in your personal autocomplete "learned dictionary". I don't know why, but 5 years ago the autocorrect on iOS never bothered me much, but over the past 1-2 years it's gotten much more "wrong". It's been driving me nuts.
    - ehsankia 6y ago
      To be clear, I don't have an iPhone myself, which is why I was wondering if you could check. I was referring to the video linked by the post. The phones there are brand new so they shouldn't have a learned dictionary, yet both the 2nd and third phone have the same behavior of adding an extra "m" at the end there if you look closely at the video.
rntksi 6y ago
This is not the case if you look at the video. He's trying it out on iPhones in an Apple Store (not owned by him).
PeterisP 6y ago
> I almost wonder if this is happening to the owner of realty.com because they have spent a lot of time looking at realtor.com No - this is why the video demo does it not on his devices (where previous personal history would be relevant) but on "clean" phones in Apple Store.
- egypturnash 6y ago
  Ah, i missed that detail!
sb8244 6y ago
I just tested on my iPhone, never visited either, and got realtor.com instead.
- kevinschumacher 6y ago
  Same here. I found that if I am in private browsing mode, this does not happen.
alasdair_ 6y ago
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.
hn_check 6y ago
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.
- TX1234 6y ago
  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.
  - hn_check 6y ago
    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.
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risorect 6y ago
I recommend editing at the beginning of your comment instead of the end, it is a lot of anecdotal/incorrect text to read through before the edit and it sort of comes off as biased or naive even though I know that wasn't your intention.

crazygringo 6y ago

Yup, similar -- I've never visited either in my life prior, but on macOS it goes to realty.com, but I am shocked that on iOS I type in "realty.com" and it doesn't autocorrect, but lists "realtor.com" as the top suggestion below, but when I hit enter it goes to realtor.com instead of realty.com! That is seriously bad functionality. I've already been annoyed at iOS's keyboard overly autocorrecting, but to change a URL I typed in explicitly really pisses me off.

ehsankia 6y ago
I'm curious, did yours also have the extra m (realty.comm)? Both the 2nd and 3rd phone the video shows has the extra m, which makes me think it's an actual bug in the autocomplete, where it has completed to "realtor.com" (notice realtor has one more letter than realty), but you actually don't see it (except the last letter, the extra m at the end). So when you press enter, it goes to realtor. If you do get the extra m, can you play around and see what happens if you delete the extra m at the end? Does it go to realtor.co? realty.com?
- crazygringo 6y ago
  Nope, never saw any extra m. Sounds like something in your personal autocomplete "learned dictionary". I don't know why, but 5 years ago the autocorrect on iOS never bothered me much, but over the past 1-2 years it's gotten much more "wrong". It's been driving me nuts.
  - ehsankia 6y ago
    To be clear, I don't have an iPhone myself, which is why I was wondering if you could check. I was referring to the video linked by the post. The phones there are brand new so they shouldn't have a learned dictionary, yet both the 2nd and third phone have the same behavior of adding an extra "m" at the end there if you look closely at the video.

rntksi 6y ago

This is not the case if you look at the video. He's trying it out on iPhones in an Apple Store (not owned by him).

PeterisP 6y ago

> I almost wonder if this is happening to the owner of realty.com because they have spent a lot of time looking at realtor.com No - this is why the video demo does it not on his devices (where previous personal history would be relevant) but on "clean" phones in Apple Store.

egypturnash 6y ago
Ah, i missed that detail!

sb8244 6y ago

I just tested on my iPhone, never visited either, and got realtor.com instead.

kevinschumacher 6y ago
Same here. I found that if I am in private browsing mode, this does not happen.

alasdair_ 6y ago

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.

hn_check 6y ago

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.

TX1234 6y ago
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.
- hn_check 6y ago
  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.
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risorect 6y ago

I recommend editing at the beginning of your comment instead of the end, it is a lot of anecdotal/incorrect text to read through before the edit and it sort of comes off as biased or naive even though I know that wasn't your intention.