Post by @tinker@infosec.exchange

Fun side effect of terrible search engines that try to "correct" what you search for...

I found the movie "Master of the Universe" available for streaming.

Not... "Masters of the Universe"

One has an 'S' in it, the other does not. Both made in 2026. One is the movie released in theaters, the other is Asylum slop made to typo squat.

Searching for Master of the Universe (even with quotes) produces "Masters of the Universe". I wanted to search for the slop one to see the trailer and see how bad it was or read reviews on it.

But nope. Took me writing out the Asylum director's name to finally force it.

So yay! Search engines deciding for you what they thought you meant, despite you being specific, obfuscates and protects typo squats. So much for "research and validate it before clicking".

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@manicPxiSIEMGrl@infosec.exchange 15 minutes ago

@tinker and this is why we should use multiple search engines while doing OSINT before social engineering (and have appropriate time and budget to do so)

Andrew (making toys)

@ajroach42@retro.social 4 hours ago

@tinker and of course, not to be confused with the excellent 1974 documentary Lord of the Universe about guru Maharaj Ji, his followers (including anti-Vietnam War activist Rennie Davis), and their critics (including Abbie Hoffman.)

This would be a much more sensible reply if I hadn't misremembered the name of the film. For some reason I thought it was also called master of the universe and I had to do a somewhat unreasonable amount of digging to discover is was mistaken.

Tinker ☀️

@tinker@infosec.exchange 3 hours ago

@ajroach42 - Still valid. I typed in Lord of the Universe movie and it brought up Masters of the Universe.

draeath

@draeath@infosec.exchange 3 hours ago

@tinker @ajroach42 use verbatim search (buried in one of the drop-down tabs) and put quotes around it.

It still sometimes decides it knows better, but it does a lot better searching for the exact terms you gave it.