Why is safari automatically erasing search history

My iphone 4 is automatically deleting search history after a couple days... Is this common and how do i stop it?

Ok hmmm... Now I just looked at the history, and a day that was previously deleted is now back on the history tab. So it's deleting a whole weeks worth of history, and then a couple days later, one day comes back. Any suggestions? Has anyone else experienced this??

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