Google Dorks

Google "dorking" is a fancy way of using Google's advanced search operators to find very targeted information. The Google Hacking Database contains hundreds of examples, but I'll cover some basic uses here.

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site: Limit the search results to those from a specific website. site:apple.com

Not so useful by itself but will return every page that Google has indexed for the apple.com domain.

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intitle: Find pages with a certain word in the title. intitle:apple

This will return every page that contains the word "apple" in the title.

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inurl: Find pages with a certain word in the URL. inurl:apple

This will return every page where "apple" appears in the URL.

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intext: Find pages containing a certain word (or words) somewhere in the content. intext:apple

This will return every page where "apple" appears in the body text.

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filetype: Search for filetypes that Google understands. site:apple.com filetype:pdf

This will return all PDFs on apple.com. Other filetypes such as docx, pptx and xlsx also work. This could be combined with intitle:report to find all PDFs that have "report" in the name. Google does not understand all filetypes, so inurl could be used instead.

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#..#: Search for a range of numbers. site:apple.com filetype:pdf 2020..2022

This will return all PDFs on apple.com which contain the numbers 2020, 2021 and 2022. Useful for finding information constrained to a given timeframe. \

-: Exclude a phrase. site:apple.com -www -support

This will return pages indexed on apple.com excluding the www and support domains. Useful for finding other subdomains.

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These dorks can be used to find interesting files, web applications and information.