For years I’d visit the Washington Post web site, typing “wa” and the browser suggesting “shingtonpost.com”. Now it’s trying to send me to warpfivefans, whatever that is. Is this the browser, or the Google search engine doing this? How’d it get reprogrammed? Is this some evil trickery? Can I change this behavior? This is on my iPhone only, not my Mac or PC desktops.
It was nice, typing two characters was faster than clicking through categorized bookmarks.
Oh, discovered part of what is going on. I was afraid warpfivefans was some kind of game or entertainment. It’s actually fans, that blow air, run by sterling engines on top of a wood stove, which I actually was researching.
Still I’d like to know how dumb things get to the front of the line of what’s suggested. For some reason, for example, I have to type “wikip” to get to Wikipedia, or else I get sent to “Wikifeet”, and I don’t even WANT to know what that is…
Which browser?
Generally those things are based on usage, with a bit of priority added to sites you’ve recently looked at. So it could make sense that warpfivefans shows up if you’ve been there recently a few times in your research. (That said, I was under the impression most browsers didn’t autocomplete with sites you’d never manually typed in before.) It should naturally fall back away once you stop going there.
The fact that you get Wikifeet instead of Wikipedia is really odd if you don’t know what the former is, though. Does anyone else use your computer or device?
It does make me wonder if your browser is sorting your site history alphabetically, though—even though that would be odd. I second the question about which browser you are using.
I get Walmart instead of Washington Post (for which I just type “wapo.”)
Oops! I should have said. Safari.
Well, I don’t use Safari (or Apple products in general) so I can’t vouch for this, but perhaps this Stackexchange thread is relevant.
In Safari, tap the icon at the bottom of the page that looks like an open book, then tap the icon that looks like a clock (this is your browser history), then in the “Search History” field type “warpfivefans,” if you see it listed swipe left on it, then tap “Delete.” If there is more than one warpfivefans entries, delete them all.