search-engine-operators.md

Search Engine Operators

The First Things you Should do

Googling someone or a company?

• Search for them on all of the different Search Engines! This will return different results

Search Engines

Google - https://www.google.com/

Google Advanced Search - https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Google Search Guide - http://www.googleguide.com/print/adv_op_ref.pdf

Bing - https://www.bing.com/

Bing Search Guide - https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/bing-google-advanced-search-operators/

Yandex - https://yandex.com/

DuckDuckGo - https://duckduckgo.com/

DuckDuckGo Search Guide - https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/

Baidu - http://www.baidu.com/

Dorking

Want to find something specific?

Google:

"c958 calculus" site:reddit.com

c958 calculus AND "professor leonard" site:reddit.com

Hunting a Password w/ Google

Google:

site:tesla.com password

site:tesla.com password filetype:pdf

site:tesla.com password filetype:xlsx

site:tesla.com password filetype:docx

"tesla.com" filetype:xlsx password

"tesla.com" filetype:xlsx pwd

Subdomains w/ Google

site:tesla.com -www

site:tesla.com -www -forums

Other Useful Dorks

intext:

• This looks for the specified word in the body of the site

"heath adams" intext:password

"heath adams" intext:password site:twitter.com

inurl:

• This looks for the specified word in the URL of the site

"heath adams" inurl:password site:twitter.com

intitle:

• This looks for the specified word in the TITLE of the site

"heath adams" intitle:password 

Google's Advanced Search

{% embed url="https://www.google.com/advanced_search" %}

Reverse Image Searching

• Google Image Search

{% embed url="https://images.google.com" %}

• Yandex

{% embed url="https://yandex.com" %}

• TinEye

{% embed url="https://tineye.com" %}