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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/unexpected autocomplete also welcome.

I only use Safari and I’ve actually been on realtor.com a ton the past few days. I just punched in realty.com and it directed me to realtor.com. If I do http://realty.com it takes me to the correct site.

Interesting! Maybe it takes a lot of visits to realtor.com to get in this state.

When I search in iPhone Safari for “sketch” I get a dictionary definition for the word as the top suggested result. Pressing “go” does a Google search for “sketch”.

Done: FB7793463. It sounds like you work at Apple? The screen recording is attached to the report.

Thank you! I do work at Apple, on WebKit mostly but I'm in touch with a lot of Safari folks too.

I don’t have a developer’s account, but I’m new to iPhone in the last 4 months and my phone also goes from realty.com to realtor.com.

Not sure if a lack of history is for some reason causing it, or the presence of history is preventing it

It's free to sign up on developer.apple.com! Bug reports filed via Feedback Assistant are a lot more actionable, so worth it if you are considering reporting issues.

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

Happy to as well. Able to reproduce on my iPhone 8. Type in “sketch” to safari. Hit enter. End up at sketchers.com

I get https://sketchfab.com

What do you get if you switch your search engine to DDG?

I use DDG and I see the same behavior:

sketch<enter> --> skechers.com

sketch <enter> --> search for sketch on DDG

So this is presumably not DDG specific behavior. Safari on latest Catalina macOS.

DDG and I get the second response for both cases.

doesn’t do it for me. one difference is my default search engine is duck duck go.

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 ;)

I use ddg and I can confirm the sketch<enter> -> Skechers.com

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 others turned those things off at some point too?

I have "Search Engine Suggestions" and "Safari Suggestions" both enabled, Google as "Search Engine" and I see the same behaviour as you (typing "sketch" RETURN in safari address bar takes me to the Google search results).

I can reproduce on an ipad, with ddg as the search engine. Neat.

I have a completely stock iOS setup (Google search) and have had this happen occasionally. I thought I was going crazy. Glad to see this isn’t just me.

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