Google Hacking

"Our Democracy has been hacked". - Mr. Robot

Google hacking, also referred to as Google Dorking, is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites are using.

This technique was made popular by Johnny Long in 2001 and it involves a variety of search engine query with advance operators.

Operator

Purpose

site

Search specific site (wikipedia.org)

related

Search for related sites

cache

Search with Google's cached version of a site

intitle

Search page Title

allintitle

Search page title

insubject

Group subject search

inurl

Search URL

filetype:env

specific files

intext

Search text of page only

allintext

Search text of page only

""

Search for exact word match

+

Search for more than one specific key

-

Exclude words from your search

OR

Combines two searches

*

Wildcard operator

link

Search for links to pages

imagesize

Advanced Image Search

@

Search Social Media

#

Search for hashtags

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