Google Dorks: Using the google search, the super way!

Yeah, you use google every day, right?😎 Ever wondered, how powerful that tool is?

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

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?

- ‘+’ 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 "")

Google advanced operators

- operator:search_term
eg. ‘cache:www.google.com’
‘site:www.google.com help’

- site

- insite

- intext

- filetype

- link

- cache

Query: cache:https://linktr.ee/daredavil

- intitle

- inurl

- allinurl

- related

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

• GoogleHackers

• SANS Google Dorks Guide

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 for interesting queries!

Thank you for reading, do share your reviews!