Google Dorks: Using the google search, the super way!
Tags: googledorks, googlesearch, osint, websearchlikepro
Published: 2023-01-07 10:26:02

Yeah, you use google everyday, right?😎
Ever wandered, how powerful that tool is?

> Apart from fetching billions of search results within seconds, you can simply finetune the results to few pages!

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/u7nqh22tp3hwnaohv7x2.gif)

Let's deep dive...!

## **Basic search techniques**

### - Simple word searches:
This is something that you use daily, which obviously gives uncatered results. Let's try a query and optimize it one step at a time! Let's say, I want to get google dorks to cheat sheet. This is what I would typically search, it gives results but did it give results on the first page, Noooooooooooooooooo?

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/k43chc34ri8v9wemttgj.jpg)
### -  ‘+’ searches
Show results with this word exactly. Do not include similar words.

### - ‘-‘ searches
Do not include this word in search results or queries

### - Phrase Searches  (Using "")
![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8wfccgfynaczzo9vko1c.jpg)

## **Google advanced operators**
```
- operator:search_term
eg. ‘cache:www.google.com’
‘site:www.google.com help’
```

### - site

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/va1qtvfpc4jubuhvcokm.jpg)
### - insite

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/cnkf72cpfw1b9kgmywco.jpg)
### - intext

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0nd89jwgzqvhvlwi3qmi.jpg)
### - filetype

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/q2b9ug56syuzi4e11yo4.jpg)
### - link

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/k4sdyy97w60zbv9mvkpy.jpg)
### - cache
`Query: cache:https://linktr.ee/daredavil
`![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3pw413b07msbf75mjd0w.jpg)
### - intitle

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/i83ukhnxd98ydo6ftwtd.jpg)
### - inurl

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xozsdux3d2mmst40dbxh.jpg)
### - allinurl

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6wvmjim3tdrygaz0q6ln.jpg)
### - related

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3te7h10qlhqqhlry26p5.jpg)

Who can use this?
- Developer
- Hacker
- General User
- Literally everyone...!


### Examples:
- book search
query: `filetype:pdf animal farm`
- username search
`query: inurl:daredavil01`
- Any Report, pdf
`query: site:mea.gov.in filetype:pdf Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar`

References:
- [GoogleHackingCheatSheet](https://cdn-cybersecurity.att.com/blog-content/GoogleHackingCheatSheet.pdf)
- [GoogleHackers](http://pdf.textfiles.com/security/googlehackers.pdf)
- [SANS Google Dorks Guide](https://sansorg.egnyte.com/dl/f4TCYNMgN6)

Any comments? How would you use dorks to query something? And if you want to go into dark areas of the internet,, you can always check [explot-db](https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database) for interesting queries!

Thank you for reading, do share your reviews!