Autocomplete oddity in Safari 4

How does Safari decide how to autocomplete a URL that you're typing? There seems to be no consistency.
For example, typing "linkedin" will either result in "http://linkedin/" (which Safari cannot, obviously, find) or "http://www.linkedin.com" (which is the correct one).
So far, I have found no combination of cleared history, bookmarks or other voodoo that explains the decision-making process. However, if the first option is autocompleted (with failure), a second attempt at typing "linkedin" will always return the correct URL.

Greetings,
The only items that are autocompleted are those that are bookmarked or in your History. If you had mistakenly typed "linkedin" and pressed Return quickly enough, you would obviously get an error, and that error would now be in your history, along with the correct URL if you bookmarked it or visited it earlier.
So the next time you type "linkedin" it should give you the correct URL if you don't type quite as fast as the first time, rather than the incorrect URL you got previously.

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it seems that the root cause for this issue is identified:
Unfortunately it's not a bug, but a bufix which is responsible for this changed behaviour of autocomplete function in Safari browser.
The bugfix was introduced in iOS 6 and corrects that password input elements on HTML forms with the autocomplete attribute set to "off" were being autocompleted although they should not.
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[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503 (search for string "CVE-2012-0680")
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Example: While typing, 'http://mydomain.com/mybackpage', Safari adds text I don't want resulting in, 'http://mydomain.com/mybackpage/crudIdontwant.html'.
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Hello, Ralph. Welcome to Apple Discussion~!!
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