Google dorks are
nothing but simple search operators that are used to refine our search. Let us
take an example if you want to search eBook on ‘networking’, your obvious
search queries would be like this "Networking eBooks" or "free eBooks for networking" etc,
We keep going into the websites, clicking on link after links and then get
proper downloading links. Now we do same thing using Google dorks and it filter
the specific result which we want, type on Google "ext:pdf
networking" (without quotes) and see the magic.
Here’s a list of
some most widely used Google dorks to help you get along with their basic use.
DORK NAME
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DORK USE
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DORK EXAMPLE
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Site
|
Returns the websites of specified domains
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Site:wikipedia.org hacking
|
Intitle and allintitle
|
It restricts the results to pages whose
title contains specified word/phrase.
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Intitle:confidential
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Inurl
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It restricts the results to sites whose
URLs contains specified phrase.
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inurl:adminlogin
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Related
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It returns the websites similar to
specified websites.
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related:www.homeshop18.com
|
Cache
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It returns the cached webpage that is kept
with Google. This dork is useful very when actually the website is down and
you can still view its contents (from cached pages).
|
cache:www.explorehacking.com
|
Ext
|
It specifies the extension .You can use
filteype at place of ext.
|
ext:ppt hacking
|
You can use multiple dorks in a single search query for
example “site: gov inurl: adminlogin” followed
by your search keyword. This will return the results having government sites
and the phrase ‘adminlogin’ in the URL.
There are many more advanced dorks for you to explore. So
keep adding to the above list and start using Google in a more efficient way
and impress your friends, teachers or boss with your quick and accurate search
results.
Alloyed Universe
