Google Dorking (finding information) - OSINT

Everyone should learn how to search.

(This post contains some google dorking techniques for finding information on the internet. Google is your friend.)

Searching

Narrow down search query, use "_something_". Ex: "Liverpool"

For exact topic and site:

site: website-name topic-name

site: geekforgeeks sql

Term	Action
`filetype:`	search for a file by its extension
`cache:`	view google’s cached version of a specified URL
`intitle:`	the specified phrase MUST appear in the title of the page
`allintext:`	searches specific text contained on any web page
`allintitle:`	show pages that contain titles with X characters
`allinurl:`	used to fetch results whose URL contains all the specified characters
`inurl:`	useful for single keyword, same as `allinurl`
`intitle:`	used to search for various keywords inside the title
`inanchor:`	useful when need to search for an exact anchor text used on any links.
`intext:`	useful to locate pages that contain characters or strings inside their text
`site:`	show the full list of all indexed URLs for the specified domain or sub-domain
`*`	wildcard used to search pages that contain anything before your word
\|	logical operator, will show all the sites which contain both words
`+`	used to concatenate words, useful to detect pages that use more than specific key
`-`	used to avoiding showing results that contain certain words

For example, searching for movies in online servers:

intitle:index of movie-name

intitle:index of? movie-name.mkv

To find similar websites, use related: Ex: related:freecodecamp.org

To search within a website, use search:d Ex: search:freecodecamp.org web development

To search within a time-frame, use ... Ex: Developers 1992... 1999

To exclude a word, use - Ex: Android Development -Flutter

To replace missing words, use * Ex: *oriented programming in python

To find a definition, use define: Ex: define:object oriented programming

To find exact phase, use " " Ex: "python free tutorials"

To search for a particular website or content, use site: Ex: site: web dev blog