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Maybe you have an ISP that captures DNS checks to return ad sites, and Safari interprets that as a real website?

But honestly it seems extremely weird that Safari would interpret something with spaces as a URL instead of a search

You’re getting downvoted for some reason, but I’ve never experienced this bug, once, ever, in about 15 years of daily iPhone usage.

There surely must be some edge case/condition to discover (which is what you were trying to suggest)?

It’s more for safari on Mac OS

I've been using Safari on MacOS for at least 15 years and never run into this problem, either. I've never even heard of it before.

I've been seeing this from time to time since at least 2016. As others have noted, it's more likely to happen when you type quickly or immediately after pasting your search in the url bar.

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